The evening of Aug. 21, while on patrol, police saw a man quickly walk away from the passenger side window of a car parked at Thorntons gas station on Harlem Avenue. According to the police report, police know Thorntons as a common area for the sale and consumption of narcotics. Police ran the registration of the car that the man walked up to and saw that it expired earlier this year. They pulled the car over on Harlem Avenue after it left the gas station and smelled cannabis inside. Police asked the driver, who said there wasn’t cannabis in the car, to step out so they could search the vehicle. They found weed under and on the driver’s seat and suspected Xanax in a pill bottle in the trunk’s wheel well. The driver was charged with expired registration, possession of a controlled substance, possession of cannabis in the passenger area of a car, and manufacturing or delivering a controlled substance.
Suspicious circumstances
Police responded to a man on Aug. 18 who reported that he lost the keys to his car around noon and, nearly eight hours later, discovered his car stolen. He told police he parked in the 1200 block of Marengo Avenue and initially said the car was his before saying it was bought by his business and was for sale. According to police, the man couldn’t produce a bill of sale and said the car didn’t have any insurance. A police department detective told the responding officer that there’s a current criminal pattern of small dealerships selling cars for cash, then reporting them stolen. These cars have been recovered or connected to crimes after the alleged stealing, according to the police report. No one was charged at the time of the report…