{"id":1314594,"date":"2019-09-13T16:48:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T22:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=987602"},"modified":"2019-09-13T16:48:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T22:48:19","slug":"crime-briefs-drug-sting-and-needles-for-insulin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/crime-briefs-drug-sting-and-needles-for-insulin\/","title":{"rendered":"Crime briefs: Drug sting and needles for \u2018insulin\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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TRIDENT stings snag suspected heroin dealer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Officers with the TRIDENT drug task force used a confidential informant and undercover officers to catch a 60-year-old man allegedly selling heroin in Rifle.<\/p>\n

The first attempt at the sting occurred on Jan. 9, when a task force officer asked a confidential informant to contact the suspect and ask for heroin. The suspect agreed, and arranged to meet the informant.<\/p>\n

Using $200 provided by TRIDENT, the informant went to the suspect\u2019s Rifle home and purchased a 1.4-gram package that tested positive for heroin.<\/p>\n

The undercover officer observing the sale could not positively identify the suspect, but the informant confirmed it was the man.<\/p>\n

Just over a week later, on Jan. 17, the suspect contacted the informant offering to sell more heroin. This time, the suspect wanted to meet at City Market in Rifle.<\/p>\n

The task force again gave the informant $200, and an undercover officer was stationed at the scene.<\/p>\n

The suspect approached the informant\u2019s car, and got in. The suspect received the cash and gave the informant a package that later tested positive for heroin, and told the informant to drive him to the other side of the store.<\/p>\n

A judge signed the warrant Sept. 12, and the suspect was arrested the same day.<\/p>\n

Man arrested for theft, claims needles were for insulin<\/strong><\/p>\n

A New Castle man was arrested for theft, possessing a weapon as a felon and having drug paraphernalia Sept. 7, after trying to elude police and toss his ID across the road.<\/p>\n

A New Castle Police Officer spotted a car veering toward the shoulder, and back across the center line going down Main Street around 9 p.m.<\/p>\n

The officer pulled the car over, and recognized the driver from previous interactions. The man appeared slow and responses were delayed, the officer wrote in an affidavit.<\/p>\n

The officer observed prescription bottles, which the suspect said were for anti-withdrawal medication. The officer asked if the man had any needles in the car.<\/p>\n

The man said yes, but the needles for a diabetic condition. He said he did not have any insulin or blood-sugar testers on him when the officer pressed.<\/p>\n

A K9 unit arrived, but the dog didn\u2019t show handlers a positive alert to the presence of drugs. One of the officers then noticed an uncapped syringe under the driver\u2019s seat, and a piece of tin foil with brown residue.<\/p>\n

The officer said he would conduct a probable cause search, and asked another officer to escort the suspect away.<\/p>\n

\u201cI turned my back on them briefly and heard a scuffle begin,\u201d the officer wrote. The other officer grabbed the suspect and they tumbled. Once they got him in the back of a police car, they asked for his ID, but he attempted to throw the card across the road.<\/p>\n

A search of the car did not turn up any more drugs besides the residue in the syringe, but officers did find a stolen Smith and Wesson handgun in a backpack.<\/p>\n

tphippen@postindependent.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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

TRIDENT stings snag suspected heroin dealer Officers with the TRIDENT drug task force used a confidential informant and undercover officers to catch a 60-year-old man allegedly selling heroin in Rifle. The first attempt at the sting occurred on Jan. 9, when a task force officer asked a confidential informant to contact the suspect and ask […]<\/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":{"0":"post-1314594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 10:30:36","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\/1314594","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=1314594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}