By Jamie Nash August 18, 2009 EAST MONTGOMERY COUNTY- At a time when most parents will do almost anything to keep their children away from drugs, police say a Porter man did the unthinkable, allegedly putting his child at risk to save himself. Deputy Drew Sharp, with the Montgomery County Pct. 4 Constable?s Office, stopped a vehicle on a traffic violation around 8 p.m. on Monday. Inside were three men and an 8-year-old boy. Sharp quickly noticed the vehicle?s occupants seemed suspiciously nervous, according to Pct. 4 Lt. Mark Seals. After a Pct. 4 K-9 unit, trained in narcotics detection alerted on the vehicle indicating the possible presence of illegal drugs, officers searched the vehicle, but found nothing. Seals said each of the three men gave officers consent to search their person, which also yielded nothing. The lieutenant began chatting with the 8-year-old boy. Seals said the child seemed nervous and upset, which was understandable under the circumstances. Nonetheless, when searches of the vehicle and three adults came up empty despite a positive alert by the K-9, Seals asked the boy if anyone had asked him to put anything in his pockets or to hold anything. The child immediately dropped his head, looking down, Seals said. As the boy allegedly began to acknowledge one of the men had asked him to hide something, Seals said the father, Michael Taylor, became belligerent and had to be restrained. The child then produced two small bags from his pockets, handing them to officers and telling them he had had what they were trying to find, Seals said. One bag contained 7 grams of methamphetamine, and the other contained around 2 grams of cocaine. In a subsequent interview, the child revealed that his father asked him to place the two bags in his pocket just prior to the stop, Seals said. Michael Allen Taylor, 32, of 18379 Pine Post in Porter is charged with first-degree felony possession of a controlled substance and child endangerment, which is a state jail felony. Pct. 4 Constable Rowdy Hayden was out...
By Jamie Nash August 18, 2009 EAST MONTGOMERY COUNTY- At a time when most parents will do almost anything to keep their children away from drugs, police say a Porter man did the unthinkable, allegedly putting his child at risk to save himself. Deputy Drew Sharp, with the Montgomery County Pct. 4 Constable?s Office, stopped a vehicle on a traffic violation around 8 p.m. on Monday. Inside were three men and an 8-year-old boy. Sharp quickly noticed the vehicle?s occupants seemed suspiciously nervous, according to Pct. 4 Lt. Mark Seals. After a Pct. 4 K-9 unit, trained in narcotics detection alerted on the vehicle indicating the possible presence of illegal drugs, officers searched the vehicle, but found nothing. Seals said each of the three men gave officers consent to search their person, which also yielded nothing. The lieutenant began chatting with the 8-year-old boy. Seals said the child seemed nervous and upset, which was understandable under the circumstances. Nonetheless, when searches of the vehicle and three adults came up empty despite a positive alert by the K-9, Seals asked the boy if anyone had asked him to put anything in his pockets or to hold anything. The child immediately dropped his head, looking down, Seals said. As the boy allegedly began to acknowledge one of the men had asked him to hide something, Seals said the father, Michael Taylor, became belligerent and had to be restrained. The child then produced two small bags from his pockets, handing them to officers and telling them he had had what they were trying to find, Seals said. One bag contained 7 grams of methamphetamine, and the other contained around 2 grams of cocaine. In a subsequent interview, the child revealed that his father asked him to place the two bags in his pocket just prior to the stop, Seals said. Michael Allen Taylor, 32, of 18379 Pine Post in Porter is charged with first-degree felony possession of a controlled substance and child endangerment, which is a state jail felony. Pct. 4 Constable Rowdy Hayden was out...
By Jamie Nash August 18, 2009 EAST MONTGOMERY COUNTY- At a time when most parents will do almost anything to keep their children away from drugs, police say a Porter man did the unthinkable, allegedly putting his child at risk to save himself. Deputy Drew Sharp, with the Montgomery County Pct. 4 Constable?s Office, stopped a vehicle on a traffic violation around 8 p.m. on Monday. Inside were three men and an 8-year-old boy. Sharp quickly noticed the vehicle?s occupants seemed suspiciously nervous, according to Pct. 4 Lt. Mark Seals. After a Pct. 4 K-9 unit, trained in narcotics detection alerted on the vehicle indicating the possible presence of illegal drugs, officers searched the vehicle, but found nothing. Seals said each of the three men gave officers consent to search their person, which also yielded nothing. The lieutenant began chatting with the 8-year-old boy. Seals said the child seemed nervous and upset, which was understandable under the circumstances. Nonetheless, when searches of the vehicle and three adults came up empty despite a positive alert by the K-9, Seals asked the boy if anyone had asked him to put anything in his pockets or to hold anything. The child immediately dropped his head, looking down, Seals said. As the boy allegedly began to acknowledge one of the men had asked him to hide something, Seals said the father, Michael Taylor, became belligerent and had to be restrained. The child then produced two small bags from his pockets, handing them to officers and telling them he had had what they were trying to find, Seals said. One bag contained 7 grams of methamphetamine, and the other contained around 2 grams of cocaine. In a subsequent interview, the child revealed that his father asked him to place the two bags in his pocket just prior to the stop, Seals said. Michael Allen Taylor, 32, of 18379 Pine Post in Porter is charged with first-degree felony possession of a controlled substance and child endangerment, which is a state jail felony.