Police Blotter 4/4

About 11 a.m. Wednesday, agents of the Region 5 Drug Task Force converged on a home at the 500 block of Tennessee with an arrest warrant. A woman drove away from the home in a green Dodge truck as officers approached, and officers stopped the vehicle on the grounds that they believed the woman was attempting to avoid task force agents.

A search of the vehicle revealed two marijuana cigarettes; the woman admitted they belonged to her and she was cited for possession of marijuana.

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While searching for suspects in an armed robbery about 4:30 p.m. March 25, police noticed a man at the corner of 14th and Gidding who saw the police car and turned south away from the car. Police stopped the man, handcuffed him, and asked him whether he had a syringe sticking out of his pants pocket. After checking the man’s pocket, the officer found the item suspected to be a syringe was actually a plastic stick from a sucker-style candy.

Further checking of the man located a container of marijuana and a pipe that testing positive for methamphetamine residue. Officers arrested him for possession of methamphetamine and possession of less than one ounce of marijuana and took him to the county jail for booking.

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Clovis police responded to a restaurant about noon Thursday on the 500 block of Hull where a 42-year-old Clovis man reported an orange 1991 Dodge pickup was missing. The man told police he had left his keys in the cab of the truck, and that if the truck was found in the possession of his girlfriend, not to consider the truck stolen but rather to consider the incident to be a prank.

Police entered the missing vehicle’s data into the National Crime Information Center reporting system. About 5 a.m. the next day, the man called police to report he had found the pickup parked on County Road L about 1 1/2 miles north of Llano Estacado, with the doors locked and keys missing.

Police Blotter is compiled by CNJ staff writer Darrell Todd Maurina. He can be contacted at 763-6991 or:

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