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Show j iff i ' "y n IS I p I. I 'i ' .3 - .-.--') v . -m :"--:-. - . -. -j .::.:: . . f" " , "A ' ' ."? -.-- -- '-v--. -v r" , - . i- . ---, ? --v ' ' . y -''?":: ' ; . .. , " - ' . , -? ' t T - . " t i OVER $30,000 IN DRUGS and cash are scattered on the floor as Chief Robert T. Downard and Officer David Free take inventory inven-tory of the items taken from an Idaho man, Sunday. Clerk's ier&ness leods police f drug ejEresft The attentiveness of a Safeway's clerk led to the arrest of an Idaho man, Sunday, carrying one of the largest quantites of drugs ever seized by Vernal City Police. The clerk, whose name is being withheld pending investigation, became suspicious when a man entered the Safeway store, Sunday, Dec. 28, and requested numerous small bills to be exchanged into larger bills. The clerk watched the man leave and saw that his car didn't have a license plate, and called the Vernal City Police. From the clerk's description, Officer David Free stopped the car, the same day, at Main and Vernal Avenue, reported Robert Downard, Vernal City police chief. Upon arrest, the man admitted he was a felon, and officer Free noted a firearm in the car. Also, the man had no registration, only a receipt for the car, Downard said. While the man was being booked in the Uintah County Jail, police officers found a small men's leather purse containing large amounts of cocaine, LSD, marijuana and hashish. Also police found several large rolls of bills. The money and the drugs are valued at over $30,000, reported police. Arrested was Don Wesley Cole, 39, of Idaho. He is being charged on four counts of possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell; possession of the cocaine and LSD is a second degree felony and third degree for possession of marijuana and hashish, Downard said. He is also being charged with possession of a weapon and no Utah registration, both misdemeanors. He is presently in the Uintah County Jail pending $35,000 bail. Officers investigating the case believe the drugs were for distribution in this area, and it is not an in-transit case. Cole is believed to have been in Vernal four weeks prior to his arrest. Also, police are investigating an alleged rape of a 17-year old Vernal girl. The incident occurred last Sunday, and charges are pending return of a lab report, Det. Mel Curtis said. |