Two men found unresponsive in car arrested
The Brown County Sheriff’s Department arrested two men on drug charges on June 9 after finding them passed out in a minivan.
Officers found the van stopped at a stop sign at the intersection of McLary Road and Deer Run Lane with its headlights on, according to a police report. The two men in the front seats were unresponsive, but officers checked and they had a pulse. Officers then administered Naloxone, a treatment that reverses the effects of a narcotics overdose.
After the first Naloxone dosage, EMS arrived at the intersection and began giving rescue breaths to the driver, 29-year-old Nathan Harris of Bean Blossom Road, using a bag valve mask. After another dosage of Naloxone was administered, Harris woke up, the report said.
Officers and EMS were using the same procedures to revive the man in the passenger seat, 30-year-old Justin Shepherd of East Shore Drive. Shepherd also woke up, and told officers that he had taken heroin with fentanyl. Harris told police he used heroin and it was his first time using since being released from jail two weeks earlier, the report said.
In the van, police reported finding an empty hypodermic needle as well as a cut and burnt Mountain Dew aluminum can, as well as about a half-gram of a tan, powdery substance assumed by officers to be heroin.
All of the evidence and paraphernalia, as well as two of Shepherd’s cellphones, were seized by police and taken to the station. Both Shepherd and Harris were taken to Columbus Regional Hospital for treatment.
Harris and Shepherd were formally charged in Brown Circuit Court on July 8 with possession of a narcotic drug and possession of a syringe, both Level 6 felonies, and possession of paraphernalia, a Class C misdemeanor.
Local man charged with syringe possession
Officers arrested a Brown County man for a previous warrant charge as well as unlawful possession of a syringe on July 4 after seeing him and his girlfriend run across the highway.
A deputy was driving east on State Road 46 East when he saw 35-year-old Darrell Hayworth of Oak Ridge Road, run across the highway. The deputy knew that he had an arrest warrant out in Brown County, so he drove up behind him and a woman as they walked up a driveway.
The deputy asked Hayworth to step to the side and told him that he was being arrested. Before he was patted down, Hayworth told the officer that he had a bag of syringes in his crotch. The pouch contained needles that Hayworth was said were for his diabetes. Once officers found cotton balls and bent spoons also inside the pouch, Hayworth admitted the needles were not for his diabetes. He also had no insulin in his possession, the report said.
Hayworth was taken to the Brown County jail and was booked in for his warrant as well as a charge of unlawful possession of a syringe, a Level 6 felony.
Local man charged with drunken driving
Charges were filed July 8 in an incident that occurred on Feb. 22 regarding a traffic stop on a possible drunk driver.
Police received a report about a driver leaving a parking lot in a 2006 Nissan Titan. Officers followed him, initiated a traffic stop at the Salt Creek Golf Course entrance and approached him. The driver, Travis Rankin, 39, of Deb Lane, admitted to officers that he had been drinking at a local bar and had had five whiskeys.
A breath test showed a reading of 0.12, over the limit for a driver. He was taken to the Brown County jail
Three misdemeanor alcohol charges were filed last week.
Reckless driver report results in misdemeanor charge
Nashville Metropolitan Police Department officers cited a Bloomington man for paraphernalia possession on June 5 after smelling marijuana during a traffic stop at Brown County Tire, according to court paperwork.
NMPD officers responded to a possible reckless driver eastbound on State Road 46 West. Officers followed the car to Circle K where it was discovered that the car’s plates were fictitious and registered to a Red Chevrolet, not a brown Cadillac Escalade, according to a probable cause affidavit by Patrolman Davis Huynh.
Officers pulled over the Escalade in the parking lot of Brown County Tire. Officers spoke with the driver and noticed a strong marijuana odor coming from the car, the report said.
The passenger, 36-year-old Billy Harris Jr., was asked to leave the car. He told officers that he did not know of marijuana in the car, but that they had just bought the car last week. He agreed to a vehicle search.
During the car search, officers found a grinder with marijuana residue inside the glove compartment, but both the driver and Harris denied knowing about it. However, once an officer got back into the patrol car, Harris said the grinder was his and that he did not want the driver to be charged for it, the affidavit states.
On June 30, Harris was charged possession of paraphernalia, a Class C misdemeanor.
The driver and Harris were released from the scene.
Stop results in misdemeanor charge, citations
Nashville Metropolitan Police Department officers cited two young men for possession of paraphernalia on May 13 after reportedly smelling marijuana during a traffic stop on State Road 46 West.
Patrolman Cody Poynter was monitoring traffic on 46 West near Town Hill Road when he reported seeing a truck going 64 MPH in a 40 MPH zone, according to a probable cause affidavit.
Poynter pulled the car over at the intersection of 46 and Green Valley Road.
Poynter reported smelling a strong marijuana odor. He asked the driver and his passenger, 18-year-old Caleb Asher of Franklin, to exit the car.
Asher told police that he and the driver smoked in the car a few hours prior to the stop. When asked if there was anything illegal inside the car, both said no. Officers then searched the truck and found a socket with burnt marijuana in it behind the passenger’s seat, as well as two cut straws with white residue inside, the police report said.
Both men admitted to smoking out of the socket, but denied doing any other drugs or knowing about the straws that were found. The white residue tested negative for methamphetamine, the report said.
Asher and the driver were cited for possession of paraphernalia, a Class C misdemeanor, and were released from the scene.
On June 4, Asher was formally charged with possession of paraphernalia, a Class C misdemeanor. The driver had not yet been formally charged as of press time.
