Carson City man faces charges after deputies find heroin during traffic stop
Submitted by editor on Fri, 09/10/2010 - 3:00am
A Carson City man faces felony and misdemeanor drug charges after he was found to be in possession of heroin and syringes.
Justin Waylon Scott, 21, is being held on $4,764 bail in the Carson City Jail.
According to the arrest report, deputies assigned to the narcotics Special Enforcement Team were assisting an Alternative Sentencing officer in the search for a woman who was a known heroin user, was recently released from jail and was supposedly using again.
Officers were in the area of Kit Sierra and Sherman streets and saw a white 1991 Lexus traveling eastbound on Sherman at a high rate of speed. A traffic stop was made on the vehicle as it turned northbound on Century Drive from Sherman. The vehicle slowed down to park but traveled about 30 yards before coming to a stop, according to the arrest report.
A deputy ran up quickly to the passenger side to make sure the driver wasn't going to run or destroy evidence. As the officer got to the passenger window, Scott was "quickly shoving" items into a black case and then shoving the case underneath the driver's seat, according to the arrest report.
Scott had his hands under the seat when the officer ordered him to put his hands on the steering wheel. Another officer had Scott exit the car where he was handcuffed. A small black case that contained a loaded syringe with a brown liquid substance, suspected to be heroin, was found as well as an empty syringe and a spoon with a brown substance "the size of a peppercorn" also thought to be heroin.
Scott admitted he recently used heroin on Tuesday and he told the officer he used half of the heroin in the loaded syringe on Wednesday, the day of the arrest. His vehicle was released to his mother, the registered owner, according to the arrest report.
The drug paraphernalia and heroin was booked into evidence and the lab tests came back positive, according to the arrest report.
— Suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
