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A Deer in Headlights.
I hopped into a squad mates (Chocolate Bear) car today fully motivated to get some bad guys.
You see, the Sarge told my partner yesterday that he was a bit low and could use some good numbers to average out the squads monthly stats.
We took that as the ‘Green’ Light to hit some places and hit ‘em hard.
First on the list was one of the hot spots for gun sales and drug trafficking, almost guaranteed to find something good.
Normally, when we’re in a ‘Search and Destroy’ type mode, we look for Key Players around the district; People we know sell, carry, transport or grow narcotics and carry firearms. The faces, locations and names we know by heart since we’d come into contact with them so often.
The chance of catching them in the act with some decent product simply becomes a game of ‘cat and mouse’, finding them with the cheese in hand, but not yet into the hole in the wall.
We must have stopped twenty some-odd cars and didn’t find anything substantial enough for an Arrest we’d be proud of so Chocolate Bear decided to change areas.
As we were leaving the area we were in and in route across the tracks, a guy on our squad (Ace) said he was following a car and asked if we could head it off since he was a few blocks behind the car.
Sure thing, that’s what were there for, a squad effort leads to notable and quality arrests.
My partner and I got behind the vehicle but our gut feeling said they weren’t the people we were looking for so we’d be better off leaving the car be and instead turned north into an apartment complex known for drug sales.
Wouldn’t you know it as soon as we got into the complex there was a car parked wrong, with both doors open and two people sitting inside.
Chocolate Bear, using extremely honed Jedi sensing said, “That is gonna be our catch tonight”.
We stopped right behind the car and both got out. I approached the passenger, my partner approached the driver.
Poetry in motion. The passenger was receiving a large wad of cash and handing a black bag to the driver.
Sticking out of that bag was a clearly visible brick of Marijuana.
Deer in headlights.
The passenger saw my partner and immediately said, “We’re all good babbyyyyyyy”.
What the..
Baby?
My partner looked at him confused for a second and then replied with, “Ya. We good sugar lips, now get outta the car.”
We cuffed them both and called our squad by.
After sitting the two guys in different cars we started going through the car.
First things first, retrieve the Marijuana. My partner grabbed the bag and removed the contents. A solid 1/4 lbs brick of Marijuana, I estimated to be an even 100 grams. Nice.
Now, since we knew we had two guys going to jail, we were starting the process on towing the car. That means we need to do an inventory of all its contents.
I popped the trunk while my partner searched the cabin. Immediately I saw another black bag like the first one we saw but it was a little bigger. Opening it up revealed a sweet smell of some more Mary-Jane. About 1/2 a pound to be exact. I estimated it to be around 220 grams.
This stop was getting even better.
After searching the entire car we found a total of 320 grams of Marijuana.
Later on we found out that the Passenger was really the owner of the car and he was selling his ‘weed’ to friends only. On his person he had $2075 in cash and 3 cell phones.
The guy in the driver seat had 167 in cash and admitted to trying to buy the stuff we already caught him in the process of buying.
We Seized the car, money and impounded the Marijuana for trial.
Not a bad day and we got a fair amount of weed off the street.
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