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Man accused of taking heroin in back of police cruiser
By Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN
A New Middletown man was taken into custody Wednesday after reports said he took heroin in the back of a police cruiser.
Also Wednesday, officers serving search warrants investigating drug activity found almost $3,000 cash inside a West Side home where two men were caught ripping open plastic bags and spilling the powder inside down the toilet.
Reports said officers found Jeffrey Anglin, 32, crawling amid the wreckage of a rollover accident about 5:05 p.m. Wednesday at Oak Hill and Indianola avenues. He was reaching his arm into the car, which was on its roof in the middle of the road, and told an officer he was looking for personal items inside.
Reports noted Anglin and other people who were in the car were refusing medical treatment from ambulance crews.
Anglin was asked to stop, and he did for a time. But when he was caught reaching inside the wrecked vehicle, he was put in the back of a cruiser until the car could be flipped onto its wheels.
After the car was flipped, police found a needle and a spoon with suspected burnt residue on it and went to the cruiser to tell Anglin he would be arrested for possessing drug-abuse instruments.
In the cruiser, Anglin was found slumped over, and a needle was next to him in the window well of the door, reports said.
Police woke up Anglin, and as he was taken to the Mahoning County jail, he became ill again. At the jail, he told corrections officers he had taken heroin at the crash scene, reports said.
The jail had police take Anglin to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital to be examined. He has a police hold on charges of possessing drug-abuse instruments and a traffic charge of failure to control for the accident.
About 6:30 p.m., officers from the vice squad and Community Police Unit serving a search warrant at 68 Millet Ave. on the West Side found money, as well as three boxes of .30-06 ammunition and knives. Reports also said officers observed two men, James Muldrow, 23, of Kendis Circle, and Dashonti Baker, 24, who lists the home as his address, ripping plastic bags apart in a bathroom and spilling the contents down a toilet. They were both arrested for tampering with evidence and possession of cocaine.
A third man, Jordan Mountain, 26, no address given, was pulled over after he was spotted driving a car that pulled out of the home’s drive. They found a dose of crack cocaine inside the car, reports said, and Mountain was jailed on a charge of possession of cocaine.
Reports said officers serving a search warrant at a 131 S. Garland Ave. home earlier saw a van driven by Girald Cruz, 21, who lists the home as his address, pull out of the drive in a van. That van was stopped, and when police searched it, they found a loaded 9 mm handgun under the driver’s seat, reports said. Cruz was taken to the jail on a charge of improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle.
A small amount of marijuana also was found in the home, reports said.