Muskegon Heights, Michigan

http://www.mlive.com/news/muchronicle/index.ssf?/base/news-8/114235293284330.xml

Cops make slew of drug busts

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

By Lisa Medendorp

CHRONICLE STAFF WRITER

Muskegon Heights police officers on routine patrol and those participating

in a special detail last weekend arrested five people for drug offenses and

confiscated a total of $3,360 cash.

The largest of the busts was 1:33 p.m. Sunday when an officer stopped the

driver of a 2005 Dodge Magnum at Peck Street and Sherman Boulevard for

playing loud music.

The vehicle also had been traveling 45 mph in a 25-mph zone, police said.

The driver, a 28-year-old Muskegon Heights man, had a suspended license, the

inside of the car smelled like marijuana and an open alcoholic beverage

bottle sat in the drink holder, police said.

He was already going to jail, but when Officer Christian Hanson finished

checking, he reported finding a total of 42 Ecstasy pills, five ounces of

marijuana and four Vicodin pills.

Police said the driver also had two cash bundles of $1,000 each and another

wad of $501 cash. After seizing the drugs and cash, police also confiscated

the late-model car.