Driver arrested for meth was instructed to “get every part out that’s not alleged to be in there,” through textual content after wreck
A truck driver was arrested over the weekend after officers discovered 4 baggage of suspected methamphetamine in his truck following a wreck.
The accident occurred in Lycoming Township, Pennsylvania on the backside of the Route 973 West off-ramp of Route 15 South on the morning of August nineteenth.
In response to the Williamsport Solar-Gazette, a tractor trailer was driving south on Route 15 at a excessive fee of velocity when it veered to the suitable and went down the off ramp earlier than hitting two indicators and overturning. 44-year-old truck driver Deangelo Colen then flagged down a passerby who known as 911 and lent Colen their cellphone. Colen then used the cellphone to ship a photograph of himself with a laceration on his head, and one of many overturned truck to an unknown particular person. The particular person replied with a message stating “what the (expletive) man. Get every part out that’s not alleged to be in there.”
When officers arrived, Colen instructed police he believed his tractor trailer had “misplaced its brakes” on the off ramp, inflicting it to overturn onto its proper aspect. An officer then climbed into the truck cab to search for insurance coverage and registration info and found a plastic bag containing a “laborious, white crystal substance” within the middle console. Officers then obtained a search warrant for the complete truck.
4 baggage of suspected methamphetamine have been discovered within the truck throughout the search, together with drug paraphernalia. The truck registration was additionally discovered to have expired in April.
Colen has since been arraigned on fees of possession of a managed substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and three abstract violations, together with accidents involving overturned automobiles and driving at an unsafe velocity. He was despatched to the Lycoming County Jail in lieu of $75,000 bail.
