JUDAH – Two people were arrested on Friday, March 29, after Lawrence County Sheriff’s Department Capt. Harrison Fleetwood.
At approximately 1:07 a.m., Capt. Fleetwood was on patrol on Old State Road 37 and Crest Motel Road when he noticed a blue Buick Century car traveling south on Old State Road 37 with a non-operable tail light and initiated a traffic stop.
The drive stopped in front of a home in the 3000 block of Old State Road 37. Deputy Shaun Cabral arrived to assist.
Officers spoke to the driver, 22-year-old Brandon Spencer, and his passenger, 31-year-old Patricia Mundy, both of Bedford.
Spencer asked to get out of the vehicle to check the tail light.
Officers asked Spencer for his driver’s license, and he replied that he didn’t have one; it was suspended, and he had just purchased the vehicle and had the title.
Police asked if there was anything illegal in the vehicle, and Spencer did not look at the officers and was nervous. Officers asked to search the vehicle, which Spencer had granted. But the car was loaded with laundry.
Officers requested Bedford Police Sgt. Faheem Bade and his canine partner Zazu to the scene. The dog alerted officers to drugs in the vehicle.
Police found a glass smoking device on the driver-side floorboard with meth residue. In a backpack, police found another glass smoking device with meth residue and Suboxone pills. Hidden behind the radio was another glass smoking device with meth residue.
Both Spencer and Mundy were detained.
Spencer is facing charges of possession of meth, possession of a legend drug, possession of drug paraphernalia, and driving while driver’s license suspended with a prior conviction.
Mundy is facing charges of possession of meth and drug paraphernalia.
Officers Brenton Trueblood and Clifford Pruett arrived to assist.
Mundy told officers she had a meth pipe stuck down the front of her pants. She had shoved it down her pants when they were pulled over. She said Spencer had handed it to her when he saw the red and blue lights and told her to hide it. She shoved it down her pants. She said she also had a baggie containing 1.09 grams of meth in her pants. Her handcuffs were removed, and she retrieved the items.
Spencer denied giving the items to Mundy to hide.
Spencer told police the glass smoking device in the vehicle was not his but some guy’s he was trying to flip on.
Bland’s Wrecker Service towed the vehicle.
