Archive for Monday, January 26, 2009

Baldwin City police arrest El Dorado couple on drug, endangerment charges

By Jeff Myrick

January 26, 2009

Baldwin City police arrested an El Dorado couple early Sunday morning on drug and aggravated endangerment of a child charges, said Police Chief Mike McKenna.

An officer was called to the 100 block of Santa Fe at around 2:20 a.m. for a motorists assist after the couple’s vehicle ran out of gas. The 33-year-old man said they were returning from a concert in Kansas City and he asked the officer to take him somewhere to make a call.

“The officer could smell alcohol on the man’s breath, but he wasn’t impaired,” said McKenna. “He said his girlfriend was in the back asleep. The 31-year-old woman took a bit to roust about because she had been imbibing.

“Once she was awake and out of the car, she said if they were going anywhere they needed to get her son out of the car,” he said.

The 12-year-old boy was also asleep and was woken up. The man then asked the officer if he would get his cell phone out of the console.

“When the officer reached in the console, he found marijuana and placed the man under arrest,” said McKenna. “The officer then searched the woman’s purse and found what is believed to be crystal methamphetamines, a spoon and a syringe.”

The boy’s eyes were also glazed over and the officer asked him what was wrong.

“He said his mom had given him marijuana,” said McKenna.

The couple was arrested on possession of drug and paraphernalia charges, as well as the aggravated endangerment of a child charge, he said. The boy was taken into protective custody and the couple was to be arraigned today in Douglas County District Court.

Comments

  1. ralpho (anonymous) says…

    Think people. Can you? This was an illegal search and seizure. Who tells a cop to look in the console when there are illegal drugs, there? Mike McKenna sounds like a damned piece of poop from Satan's hiney--an obsequious, crooked piece of crap. Ralpho

  2. rateraiser (anonymous) says…

    im⋅bibe   /ɪmˈbaɪb/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [im-bahyb] Show IPA Pronunciation
    verb, -bibed, -bib⋅ing.
    –verb (used with object) 1. to consume (liquids) by drinking; drink: He imbibed great quantities of iced tea.
    2. to absorb or soak up, as water, light, or heat: Plants imbibe moisture from the soil.
    3. to take or receive into the mind, as knowledge, ideas, or the like: to imbibe a sermon; to imbibe beautiful scenery.
    –verb (used without object) 4. to drink, esp. alcoholic beverages: Just a soft drink for me—I don't imbibe.
    5. to absorb liquid or moisture.
    6. Archaic. to soak or saturate; imbue.

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    Origin:
    1350–1400; < L imbibere to drink in, equiv. to im- im- 1 + bibere to drink; r. ME enbiben < MF embiber < L, as above
    Dictionary.com Unabridged
    Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.

    -sorry, had to check (and save the majority of the people reading this some time)

    - Ralpho, you would be suprised at just how stupid criminals are.