{"id":1311140,"date":"2019-06-07T16:30:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T22:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=980169"},"modified":"2019-06-07T16:30:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T22:30:34","slug":"crime-briefs-one-hit-of-marijuana-leads-to-meth-charges-female-that-spent-hours-at-convenience-busted-for-meth-and-needles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/crime-briefs-one-hit-of-marijuana-leads-to-meth-charges-female-that-spent-hours-at-convenience-busted-for-meth-and-needles\/","title":{"rendered":"Crime Briefs: \u201cOne hit\u201d of marijuana leads to meth charges; female that spent hours at convenience busted for meth and needles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cONE HIT\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

On May 31 at approximately 11:36 a.m. a Rifle Police officer responded to a \u201csuspicious call\u201d stating that a backpack was left overnight in Heinze Park.<\/p>\n

The reporting party advised that the backpack was at the park\u2019s gazebo and that a male wearing \u201ca black shirt and swim trunks\u201d was going through it and \u201cripping apart a notebook.\u201d<\/p>\n

The officer, upon arriving on scene, noticed a male \u201cput a pipe to his lips, light the pipe with a torch and smoke,\u201d according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n

When asked what he was smoking the 39-year-old allegedly stated \u201cmarijuana\u201d and that he was just taking \u201cone hit.\u201d<\/p>\n

The male also allegedly told the officer that he did not know he could not smoke in public.<\/p>\n

After running the subject\u2019s name, dispatch advised that the male had a protection order, which stated the he \u201cshall not possess or consume alcoholic beverages or controlled substances.\u201d<\/p>\n

After being placed under arrest the subject began \u201cbanging his head on the metal divider\u201d inside the officer\u2019s patrol car causing a laceration on his forehead.<\/p>\n

According to the affidavit, the subject refused treatment at the hospital and was later booked into the Garfield County Jail.<\/p>\n

Officers allegedly later discovered a meth pipe and a substance that tested presumptive positive for methamphetamine in the man\u2019s belongings.<\/p>\n

The subject was subsequently charged with: violation of a restraining order, unlawful possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and public consumption of marijuana.<\/p>\n

DUFFEL BAG WITH METH AND NEEDLES<\/strong><\/p>\n

On June 3 at approximately 2:06 a.m. an officer with the Silt Police Department noticed a woman at an area convenience store who \u201chad been there a couple hours.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the affidavit, the officer observed that the 32-year-old female was \u201cvery fidgety\u201d and \u201cgrinding her teeth.\u201d<\/p>\n

The female stated that she was waiting for a ride, since the officer had already arrested her male friend in a separate, earlier incident.<\/p>\n

During that arrest, the officer allegedly found a glass pipe \u201cused to smoke methamphetamine in her friends\u2019 backpack,\u201d and that the male had said that it did not belong to him.<\/p>\n

Subsequently, the female stated that the meth pipe was not hers and went on to say \u201cshe only shoots up with a needle.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the officer questioned as to what was in a tan duffel bag on the floor behind the female, she said that it\u2019s contents belonged to her and her friend.<\/p>\n

The female said she was not comfortable with the officer looking inside of it because \u201cshe was not sure if there was anything illegal\u201d in it according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n

When the officer advised that a K9 would sniff the bag the female allegedly began crying and stated that there was \u201cmeth and needles in the duffel bag.\u201d<\/p>\n

The female was later transported and booked into the Garfield County Jail and charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.<\/p>\n

The amount of methamphetamine totaled to 1.58 grams according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n

mabennett@postindependent.com<\/a><\/p>\n

via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cONE HIT\u201d On May 31 at approximately 11:36 a.m. a Rifle Police officer responded to a \u201csuspicious call\u201d stating that a backpack was left overnight in Heinze Park. The reporting party advised that the backpack was at the park\u2019s gazebo and that a male wearing \u201ca black shirt and swim trunks\u201d was going through it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1311140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-08 21:00:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}