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Suspects Just Can't Help Themselves
"You're just never surprised at what people do," said 1st Sgt. Ronald Best of the State Police.
(By Mark Gail -- The Washington Post)
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Pressed, Redmond said there are some people for whom no law registers, whether they're buying drugs or going back home with them.
"When you're a bonehead and you have complete disregard for the law, you disregard nearly everything," Redmond said.
He noted that Linger and other troopers are on alert for suspicious behavior whenever they stop a driver. For example, a visibly thumping carotid artery in the neck suggests an increased pulse rate. Linger has one of the highest drug arrest totals of any trooper in the state, Redmond said.
In Calvert, a trooper was stopped at a light on Route 2 at Plum Point Road on Tuesday when he was hit by the car with stolen plates, authorities said.
They identified the driver as Justine Rae Moschetto-Parrott, 41, of Prince Frederick. She was arrested on charges of theft and driving under the influence, authorities said.
Two days earlier in Prince Frederick, about 10 miles south of that incident, a trooper was patrolling the westbound lane of Route 231. He saw a black Lexus flying toward him in the opposite lane. He activated his radar unit, which displayed 101 mph. The trooper turned around and tried to catch the Lexus. But it ducked into a neighborhood and slipped away, according to records filed in Calvert County District Court.
Other officers kept a lookout for the Lexus, including a Calvert sheriff's deputy who spotted it leaving a parking lot. The deputy pulled the driver over and eventually was joined by the trooper who had clocked the car on radar.
As the trooper talked to the occupants, he noted that five air fresheners were hanging from the rearview mirror, something officers say is a common ploy to mask marijuana odor. A drug-sniffing dog, named Bean, was called in. He smelled the car and indicated there were drugs in it.
Officers searched the car, eventually finding 21 grams of marijuana and 40 jeweler baggies, commonly used to sell it, according to authorities. They arrested the driver, Wayne A. Jones, 39, of Lusby, according to court records.
"I can't understand why these people do half the things they do. Sometimes these things defy logic," Paton said.
Not all arrests are so easy, he added. "There's luck and skill and everything in between," he said.
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