Crime Report: Man Arrested on Charges of Having Meth, Paraphernalia

arrested a man June 11 on charges of possessing methamphetamines and materials used to create and inject the drug, according to a police report.

Officers stopped a car traveling eastbound on Michigan Avenue near Lilley Road when, after running the car’s license plate number, the driver came up as having an arrest warrant from Sumpter Township Police.

The driver had told police he thought the warrant had been cleared up, and was placed in the rear of the police car until officers could verify the status of the warrant.

During this time, another officer spotted two purses in the back seat of the vehicle, but no females were in the car. Police gained consent to search the vehicle, finding a black box with hypodermic needles, an empty glass jar, hand sanitizer and another glass jar containing a small white clump of an unknown substance.

The man told police it was a rolled up cotton ball used as a filter for injecting meth, and that it belonged to his girlfriend, who he said is a heavy user of meth and heroin, and that he was taking the materials to a new living location after being kicked out of his trailer.

In the trunk, police also found another box with more needles, a box of alcohol swabs, a wrapped-up bottle of Liquid Lightning-brand drain cleaner, a gas can, a black pouch with two glass pipes — one that appeared new and one that appeared used —for smoking a variety of substances, two boxes of CVS-brand allergy medicine containing Pseudoephedrine, brake fluid, power steering fluid, a bottle of Chlorox bleach, Q-tips, a package of multi-colored straws, another empty glass jar and empty plastic bottles, the report said.

The man told police he is a former meth user but no longer uses it, but is familiar with how the drug is made and said his trailer in Washtenaw County had been raided earlier in the month during a meth lab bust.  Police arrested the man on the drug charges and impounded the car.

Man arrested on charges of driving under influence of drugs

Canton Township Police were dispatched at 7:45 p.m. June 8 to westbound Ford Road near Sheldon Road for a possible intoxicated driver in a silver Pontiac Grand Am, according to a police report.

When police were responding to the location of the car, they were told by a dispatcher that the vehicle was stopped in the left turn lane on Ford Road at Canton Center after rear-ending another vehicle, the report said.

While patting down the driver of the Grand Am, police noticed an object in his jeans pocket that felt like a syringe, the report said. The officer retrieved the syringe and a plastic spoon.

The driver told police he used to use heroin and now uses Suboxone, a drug used to treat opiate addiction, crushing it up and injecting it into his arm, the report said. According to the police report, the man had injection and track marks on his upper left arm near his elbow and had slow and lethargic movement. The man told police he had used Suboxone at 1 p.m. that day.

When the officer told the man he had never heard of anyone injecting Suboxone, the man told police his doctor told him it’s not the typical way to take the prescription medication, but if it works for him, then he could do it.

Two witnesses, who were in the vehicle behind the man, told police they first noticed the driver getting onto the southbound I-275 ramp from I-96 in Plymouth Township. They said the vehicle went off the side of the entrance ramp and onto the shoulder of the road. They told police they continued to follow the car southbound and saw it almost hit several other cars and the concrete walls on both sides of the road in a narrow construction area, the report said. At one point, the witnesses told police, the car was driving in the middle of two lanes.

The witnesses told police they continued to follow the vehicle along westbound Ford Road as it weaved in its lane and almost hit several more vehicles.

The driver of the vehicle struck by the Grand Am told police he was stopped in the left turn lane waiting for a red light when he was rear-ended. He told police he had had back surgery a few weeks prior and now his back was in pain again from the accident, but refused treatment at the scene.

Police arrested the man on charges of operating while under the influence of drugs with a June 27 court date at .