$153,000 Worth Of Painkillers Found During Traffic Stop
A routine traffic stop resulted in Kingsport Police taking more than $153,000 worth of prescription painkillers off of the streets, and it also landed two people in jail.
Kingsport Police stopped Bristol, Tennessee resident Jonathan Trenton Leonard’s Chevrolet Tahoe for speeding on I-81 on Tuesday. Bluff City resident April Shannon Hutson was the passenger in the SUV at the time of the stop.
Police say that they found about 1,800 oxycodone and around 1,300 hydrocodone pills inside of the SUV, after a drug dog hit on a scent.
Leonard and Hutson were both arrested for possession of narcotics for resale.
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I got pulled over once and told the cop he did not have my consent to search my vehicle. They wouldn’t let me leave until the k9 got there and while they were doing the walk around I saw the handler wiggle his hand….then magically the dog stopped with his nose pressed against my back driver side door. What did they find?? NOTHING! But of course, the officer insisted they must have been something in there before for the dog to hit. The cops are clowns…all you supporter of cops are clowns. I can hear you already…“you’ll see what happens when you need them” I have already seen that. NO HELP!! Now you not allowed to be nervous…cause that’s probable cause in a cops eye. The tri-cities is becoming a joke in the police realm.
Use of ‘drug dogs’ is simply a way for police to do an end run around the 4th amendment and do searches they couldn’t do legally. A dog can be trained to ‘sign’ on anything, from a drug to a hamburger wrapper in the car to simply reacting to being walked around a strange car with it’s handler encouraging it to ‘do something’......( besides raise a leg on a tire )
Would be interesting to see the statistics on how many times a motorist stopped for a traffic violation is “asked” if they will allow a search of the car….and when refused, how many times the car is searched after the drug dog is brought to the scene ( my guess: 100% ) and nothing is found. My guess is you’ll never see those statistics anywhere in the public light.
Good dog! I hope the pup was given an extra big bone.
Kudos to the officers, too, of course! 
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