MIDDLEBURG HEIGHTS, Ohio – A Cleveland man, 51 at the time, and a Cleveland woman, 23, may face criminal charges after police found what they believed were crack cocaine and other suspected drugs in their Range Rover.
At about 1 p.m. Oct. 26, police saw the Range Rover exit Interstate 71 and turn westbound onto Bagley Road. They started following the vehicle because its windows were too darkly tinted.
Police pulled over the Range Rover as it was backing into a parking space at Sonesta ES Suites, 17525 Rosbough Drive. They asked the driver to lower the window because they could not see inside the vehicle.
The Cleveland woman, who was driving, open the door slightly. She said she could not lower the window because she didn’t have the car key.
The woman said she had only a temporary driver’s license. She said the Range Rover belonged to her boyfriend, the Cleveland man, and that he was inside a Nissan Rogue with a Georgia license plate parked next to her.
The man wasn’t in the Nissan, but as police talked to the woman, he appeared. He acknowledged that police had warned him previously about the Range Rover’s dark window tint.
Police then remembered that they had stopped the same Range Rover in June. At the time, the woman was in possession of drug paraphernalia.
Police learned that the man was on federal probation. They found a glass pipe, which police believed was drug paraphernalia, on the woman, and a stack of bills in the man’s pocket.
The woman argued with police and would not step out of the way so that police could search the Range Rover. Police escorted her away from the vehicle.
In the woman’s purse, police found four plastic bags containing suspected crack cocaine, white powder, marijuana and a dark-blue rock substance.
Inside the Range Rover, police found a digital scale and plastic sandwich bags, indicating the packaging of illegal drugs.
Police cited the man for wrongful entrustment of a motor vehicle and released him. Meanwhile, the woman passed out. Police thought she was overdosing.
Police administered one dose of Narcan, a heroin- and opioid-overdose antidote. Paramedics arrived, gave the woman more Narcan and loaded her into an ambulance.
The woman awoke and verbally abused paramedics and/or police. She ripped wires from her body and refused further medical treatment. Police cited her and let her go.