When drug-sniffing K-9 ‘alerts’ on truck, Georgia man suggests dog may just be moody
On the evening of June 1, deputies in Monroe County pulled over a 2019 Dodge Ram pickup headed south on Interstate 75 near Forsyth.
The truck, a rental, had North Carolina plates and it caught a cop’s eye when it apparently weaved out of its lane. The driver, a 30-year-old woman from Perry, said she had been to Lenox Square mall in Atlanta but that she just walked around didn’t buy anything.
Her boyfriend, 30, of Warner Robins, told a deputy that they had gone to the mall but that it was closed. Suspecting something fishy, a deputy asked the woman if there was anything illegal in the truck. An incident report noted when asked, the woman looked away and said no. The deputy then asked for consent to search the truck.
The woman paused “for several seconds” before saying, “I don’t think you have probable cause.”
The deputy then walked his drug-sniffing dog, Khan, around the truck and the dog gave what the deputy noted as “a positive alert.” It was then that the driver’s boyfriend began questioning the deputy.
“How can you say (the dog) alerted?” the boyfriend reportedly asked. “I didn’t hear him bark or anything. What kind of mood is he in?”
The deputy informed the man that he was a certified dog handler. The deputy also told the guy he was “unsure what kind of mood the dog was in,” but that the dog had smelled drugs. Inside the pickup, deputies found what were described as three “large Ziploc bags” of meth.
The driver’s boyfriend soon began screaming and became “very aggressive,” the report said. He and his girlfriend were jailed on drug-trafficking and gun-possession charges for allegedly having a Glock 23 in the truck.
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