Cops catch 2 trying to conceal drugs internally
Staff report
YOUNGSTOWN
Police had to use extra care in two separate incidents Wednesday and Thursday in dealing with drugs or drug paraphernalia that suspects tried to stuff inside their bodies.
About 7 p.m. Wednesday, police were called to a vacant home in the 1400 block of Fifth Avenue where they found a man performing a sex act in the driveway, reports said, in sight of several people and cars on the street.
Reports said when the man, later identified as Melvin White, 39, saw officers, he began running toward the house with no pants on. Reports said officers got permission to go inside and look for him, and when they found him, he ignored orders to get on the ground and instead was jamming items into his rectum before setting them under a pile of clothes.
Wearing gloves, police found two bags of suspected crack cocaine and two crack pipes he tried to conceal, reports said. After he was handcuffed, he gave police a false name and Social Security number, reports said.
White was arraigned Friday in municipal court on a felony charge of possession of crack cocaine and misdemeanor counts of possession of drug paraphernalia, criminal trespass, public indecency and obstructing official business. Magistrate Anthony Sertick set his bond at $13,500.
Also arraigned Friday on charges of possession of drug-abuse instruments, possession of drugs/marijuana and possession of drugs was Courtney Bush, 22, of Pointview Avenue.
Reports said Bush was a passenger in a car that was pulled over about 5:10 p.m. Thursday at East Indianola Avenue and Rush Boulevard on the South Side for having several items hanging from the rearview mirror and officers saw her fumbling her hands inside the front of her pants.
Reports said police took the driver and another passenger out of the car. As they were being removed, Bush was moving her hands around more frantically, police said.
When police told her they would search her for weapons, she said she had stuffed a large bag of marijuana inside of her and she pulled it out and threw it on the ground. Police also found two syringes and a pill in her purse,
Police used biohazard materials to collect the bag of marijuana and store it, reports said.