Lebanon police pulled over a black Dodge Ram for what began as a simple registration infraction, but the stop soon turned into a noteworthy arrest when officers discovered the driver with more than just a suspended license under his belt.
During the traffic stop, the Lebanon Police Department uncovered that the 50-year-old male behind the wheel wasn’t just a driver operating illegally, but he was also wanted on a nationwide extradition warrant from Pennsylvania based on failure to appear for weapon-related charges, leading to his arrest with a search that consequently turned up suspected fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that has become alarmingly commonplace in the tides of the ongoing drug crisis, the department disclosed the incident in a social media post.
“Earlier today, B-Shift officers stopped a black Dodge Ram for a registration violation,” the Lebanon Police Department post read, which further detailed the succession of discoveries: a suspended license, a serious warrant extending across state borders, and the illicit drug, resulting in the man’s arrest, but the story doesn’t simply end with the click of the cuffs and the seal of a jail cell door…