An astute Franklin County Sheriff’s Office deputy, who noticed a Dodge Charger with excessive window tint allegedly swerving through multiple lanes on Interstate 64 East Saturday afternoon, arrested the vehicle’s driver after a large quantity of marijuana was found inside.
At 1:52 p.m., when the deputy pulled over the car driven by 24-year-old Recardo Travis III, he allegedly detected a strong odor of marijuana.
Recardo Travis III
A search ensued and law enforcement found several large, vacuum-sealed bags of marijuana in the trunk and a scale in the passenger compartment. The recovered marijuana weighed in at 2 pounds.
Also located in the vehicle was $103 in cash in a cup holder and a loaded Taurus 9mm with an extended magazine found nearby.
According to his arrest citation, Travis, of Louisville, said the vehicle swerved because he dropped his phone and was reaching for it. He also told the deputy that his brother had driven the car the day before.
He is charged with enhanced trafficking in marijuana (more than 8 ounces but less than 5 pounds), first offense, a Class C felony; possession of drug paraphernalia, a Class A misdemeanor; and excessive windshield/window tinting, a violation.
Travis was taken to the Franklin County Regional Jail where he is being held on a $10,000 full-cash bond.
Yeah, thank the Lord for our “astute” deputies trolling for dollars by fleecing travelers/tourists out on I-64. I understand that they’re not the only ones in the country that are going for the low hanging fruit, as all across the South enterprising sheriffs departments set out speed traps that seem to be a way to get into peoples cars to search them.
Every once in a while, they nab some poor disadvantaged individual that hadn’t ever caught a break in this world, with illicit substances in their car, which are almost always much less toxic than the stuff we proudly make right downtown here by the railroad tank-car full. After all, we are the “Bourbon capital of the world”, aren’t we? The hypocrisy undercuts the very foundation of their moral position!
Well, that seems lost on everybody because we demonize marijuana and people with skin and windows that “are too dark”.
Although nobody will tell me (it’s a closely guarded secret I’m sure!), I wonder what the success rate is from all of the car stops/coerced searches to the ones where they stumble onto a “major bust”. Like a couple of pounds of pot that he could have purchased legally in a contiguous state, is major anything? Is one out of a hundred stops good enough to justify this intrusion into innocent traveler’s lives? This smacks of the stuff of occupied third world countries like Iraq and Afghanistan, where they have all those checkpoints! Papers please! Is that what we wanna be?
You know, we live in the age of social media where disgruntled motorists who have been needlessly harassed by our local constabulary out on the interstate, can and do voice their complaints readily to the worldwide web.
Getting pulled over/ticketed for speeding, having a light out, or other minor routine traffic infraction, is one thing, but being forced out of your car, and standing on the roadside in the rain or frigid weather while the police go through the continents, is an entirely different thing. It makes people mad, and they don’t forget it! It’s enough to make people post on the Internet about how they need to avoid our town! Once you get branded on Facebook for something like this, it can have real detrimental effects. Has nobody really thought about this?
I’ve seen TV shows like on 60 Minutes, which did an expose on this infamous southern town on I-10 which was doing pretty much the same thing. I’ll bet that the town is still suffering!
Who sets such policy since it effects all of our community’s good name? Is it entirely determined by the police? The police should be enforcing policy set by our local elected governing bodies, not setting policy. It seems very shortsighted to me. We literally have an epidemic of child molestation/abuse going on right here, right now, that begs for priority from our law enforcement, and they have full time officers trolling the interstate for small time druggies in some kind of misguided version of the failed 1960’s War on Drugs.
This isn't news. Two pounds of pot isn't some public health emergency. Last year the SJ said they'd refrain from posting about drug arrests, except in trafficking cases. This isn't heroin. This isn't meth. Why is this a big enough deal to warrant a story? It's pot. Come on, now.
You are on to something here, and BTW, Vacuum, sealed my alarm bags do not have any odor, anymore than garlic, croutons, or other smelling herbs, packed the same way. It’s just a really convenient way to say I have probable cause to get in your car. It’s called coercion and in my Justice Department training on search and seizure, is illegal.
Sorry, my phone went nuts as I was dictating into it, that should’ve read “vacuum sealed aluminum mylar bags” do not allow for the transfer to the outside air of the tiny molecules that your nose and brain have to detect to smell something. That is why the commercial food companies use them to protect their aromatic herbs and spices from degradation.
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Yeah, thank the Lord for our “astute” deputies trolling for dollars by fleecing travelers/tourists out on I-64. I understand that they’re not the only ones in the country that are going for the low hanging fruit, as all across the South enterprising sheriffs departments set out speed traps that seem to be a way to get into peoples cars to search them.
Every once in a while, they nab some poor disadvantaged individual that hadn’t ever caught a break in this world, with illicit substances in their car, which are almost always much less toxic than the stuff we proudly make right downtown here by the railroad tank-car full. After all, we are the “Bourbon capital of the world”, aren’t we? The hypocrisy undercuts the very foundation of their moral position!
Well, that seems lost on everybody because we demonize marijuana and people with skin and windows that “are too dark”.
Although nobody will tell me (it’s a closely guarded secret I’m sure!), I wonder what the success rate is from all of the car stops/coerced searches to the ones where they stumble onto a “major bust”. Like a couple of pounds of pot that he could have purchased legally in a contiguous state, is major anything? Is one out of a hundred stops good enough to justify this intrusion into innocent traveler’s lives? This smacks of the stuff of occupied third world countries like Iraq and Afghanistan, where they have all those checkpoints! Papers please! Is that what we wanna be?
You know, we live in the age of social media where disgruntled motorists who have been needlessly harassed by our local constabulary out on the interstate, can and do voice their complaints readily to the worldwide web.
Getting pulled over/ticketed for speeding, having a light out, or other minor routine traffic infraction, is one thing, but being forced out of your car, and standing on the roadside in the rain or frigid weather while the police go through the continents, is an entirely different thing. It makes people mad, and they don’t forget it! It’s enough to make people post on the Internet about how they need to avoid our town! Once you get branded on Facebook for something like this, it can have real detrimental effects. Has nobody really thought about this?
I’ve seen TV shows like on 60 Minutes, which did an expose on this infamous southern town on I-10 which was doing pretty much the same thing. I’ll bet that the town is still suffering!
Who sets such policy since it effects all of our community’s good name? Is it entirely determined by the police? The police should be enforcing policy set by our local elected governing bodies, not setting policy. It seems very shortsighted to me. We literally have an epidemic of child molestation/abuse going on right here, right now, that begs for priority from our law enforcement, and they have full time officers trolling the interstate for small time druggies in some kind of misguided version of the failed 1960’s War on Drugs.
This isn't news. Two pounds of pot isn't some public health emergency. Last year the SJ said they'd refrain from posting about drug arrests, except in trafficking cases. This isn't heroin. This isn't meth. Why is this a big enough deal to warrant a story? It's pot. Come on, now.
Thanks for posting harry. You make good points all. I hope to see your thoughts on other issues.
You are on to something here, and BTW, Vacuum, sealed my alarm bags do not have any odor, anymore than garlic, croutons, or other smelling herbs, packed the same way. It’s just a really convenient way to say I have probable cause to get in your car. It’s called coercion and in my Justice Department training on search and seizure, is illegal.
Sorry, my phone went nuts as I was dictating into it, that should’ve read “vacuum sealed aluminum mylar bags” do not allow for the transfer to the outside air of the tiny molecules that your nose and brain have to detect to smell something. That is why the commercial food companies use them to protect their aromatic herbs and spices from degradation.
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