A burned out license plate and tail light on a vehicle led to the arrest of a two early Wednesday morning, with a 19-year-old woman facing felony drug charges.
Officers patrolling the area stopped the vehicle near the intersection of Northridge and Roop streets shortly before midnight after seeing the violations and made contact with the driver, Shayla Marie Feber and an 18-year-old male passenger.
When the officer asked if there was anything illegal in the car, Ferber answered there wasn't anything illegal but said so in such a way that it appeared she was being untruthful, according to the arrest report. The woman denied consent to search the vehicle. The officer's K9, Tarzan, instead did an exterior sniff of the vehicle and alerted the officer to the driver's and front passenger doors, the arrest report states.
A search was then conducted with the woman's purse found in a seat. It contained small baggies, a digital scale and a money owed/payment list that indicated sale of narcotics. In the cargo pouch behind the front passenger seat, directly in front of the passenger, officers found a marijuana pipe. Lastly, on the floorboard where the passenger's seat were was an empty cigarette pack with a small amount of marijuana. She was arrested at 12:53 a.m.
The male passenger was arrested, also at 12:53 a.m. for paraphernalia and was walked to a patrol vehicle, but he refused to get inside or have a seat. The officer ordered him to do so nearly a dozen times, but he refused, and kept asking for another officer because he didn't think he should go to jail and he said that he thought the officer was "harassing" him because the pipe didn't belong to him, the arrest report states.
He was eventually placed into the patrol car with the help of another officer, the report states. He was booked on misdemeanor charges of possession of drug paraphernalia and obstructing. Bail: $1,432.
The woman was taken to jail. On arrival and prior to entering the facility, she was told repeatedly by more than one officer that bringing a controlled substance into jail would be a felony and she needed to reveal any contraband if she was hiding it. The woman refused and during intake, jail staff watched her drop a small baggie that contained what appeared to be hallucinogenic mushrooms. She was charged with possession for sales and introducing a controlled substance into a detention facility. Bail: $11,132.
In other felony-related arrests:
A 50-year-old Las Vegas man, Jack Young Turrentine, was booked into Carson City jail Tuesday. He faces felony charges of false pretenses to obtain money, goods or services and obtaining or using false information of another person. The charges stem for two warrants, issued Oct, 2 out of Carson City Justice Court.
Turrentine was extradited from Harris County, Texas after signing a waiver on Nov. 5.