_ 4405 Ringgold Rd.: An officer observed a Chevy SVU that was backed into a parking spot and running in the lot of Advanced Auto just before midnight on Tuesday. According to a police report, the officer spotted the car as he was in the lot working a prior traffic stop. The officer approached the running vehicle and initially did not see anyone in the car. Upon closer inspection, he saw a man slumped down in the driver’s seat. The report states that the officer knocked on the window multiple times before the man came to and rolled down his window.
The officer noticed an odor of marijuana coming from inside the car as he asked for the man’s identification. According to the report, the man, later identified as Patrick Gale, had droopy eyes and was sluggish. Gale told the officer he was in town for Christmas to visit his mother and had argued with his wife. The report states that Gale did not cooperate with officers in producing his identification. When asked to step out of the car he was uncooperative as well.
Gale was assisted outside of the vehicle and taken into custody, as police believed he was intoxicated. A search of Gale produced CO2/Nitrous Oxide cartridges. A search of Gale’s car produced two cases of CO2 cartridges totaling 530 cartridges, a set of scales, five glass pipes, a bong and suspected methamphetamine and marijuana. According to the report, Gale told officers that within the last three hours he had smoked marijuana and methamphetamine.
Gale, 32, of a Bensalem, Pennsylvania address, was charged with Possession of Schedule II, Possession of Schedule III, Possession of Schedule VI for Resale, Possession of Inhalants, Public Intoxication and Resisting Arrest/Search.
_ 6400 block Ringgold Rd.: Police were dispatched to the address, Sunday, on a motor vehicle crash. According to an affidavit of complaint, Barbara Williams was the driver of a 1997 Toyota 4-Runner that was traveling east on Ringgold Road when she crashed into the rear of another Toyota. The report states that after crashing into the car in front of her, she turned into the parking lot of Burger King in an attempt to flee the scene. As she was exiting the parking lot, she failed to yield to oncoming traffic and caused a second crash. The driver of a Chevy Traverse crashed into Williams’s vehicle, flipping the 4-Runner. According to the report, police found several empty cans of “Four Lokos,” an alcoholic beverage that is 10 percent alcohol by volume. The report states that Williams admitted to drinking two cans of the beverage and to taking Suboxone, a narcotic, while consuming the beverages. The report states that Williams told police as she was en route to the police station that she had been drinking all day. Williams, 32, of a Dayton, Tennessee address, was charged with Driving under the Influence and Leaving the Scene of an Accident.
