A pair of smokers lit up cigarettes to try to throw off a K-9 during traffic stop.
An officer observed a silver 2001 Toyota Tundra pickup truck headed east on County Road 466 around 10 p.m. Thursday, according to an arrest report from the Wildwood Police Department. It did not have two working taillights, leading to a traffic stop on U.S. 301. He approached the two occupants, including 55-year-old Dawn Lynn Douglas and 51-year-old Brian Michael Eastman, as they lit cigarettes.
This is a common tactic of illicit narcotics users who are trying to deter police canines from finding narcotics. This, along with Douglas’s unusual talkativeness, made the officer suspicious of illegal activity. He then requested more units come to the scene so he could check for narcotics with a K-9, the report said.
A positive alert meant the officer could search the truck, which resulted in the discovery of a clear bulbous glass pipe between the front passenger seat and center console. There were also numerous Narcan canisters and torch lighters, the latter of which can be used to superheat methamphetamine and other narcotics into vapor, the report said…