By OLIVIA BERGMEIER
Salina Post
During a regular traffic stop on Sunday, Feb. 25, Salina Police Department officers found almost 250 undocumented oxycodone pills.
According to SPD Capt. Mike Miller, at about 3:30 p.m. Sunday, officers made a traffic stop after witnessing a 2011 gold Dodge Ram 3500 pickup truck failing to yield at a stop sign near the 1200 block of West Crawford Street.
Once SPD officers stopped the vehicle in a parking lot, a K-9 officer alerted on the truck, indicating the presence of narcotics.
"Officers did a search on the vehicle and located two pill bottles," Miller said. "One of them had 208 oxycodone pills, and the other bottle had an additional 33 oxycodone pills."
Miller said during past arrests, some officers recovered pills that looked near-identical with oxycodone but turned out to be fentanyl or oxycodone dupes laced with fentanyl.
Since the pills lacked a drug tax stamp or any other documentation, officers arrested 34-year-old Jacob Wayne Thompson. Miller said due to the pills' unknown maker or distributor, SPD sent the tablets to a lab to test for fentanyl.
Thompson also allegedly had a 9-year-old child traveling in the truck with him when officers conducted the traffic stop. SPD requested charges for aggravated endangerment of a child, distribution of a stimulant, lack of drug tax stamp and drug paraphernalia.
Miller said Thompson also required an interlock device to drive legally, which Thompson had in the truck, but it was not correctly connected.
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