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ST. GEORGE — A Washington Metropolis man is in jail on a number of first-degree felony costs, following an incident involving the alleged restoration of marijuana from a car with juveniles within the automobile. On the time of the arrest, the suspect additionally had two open felony circumstances, considered one of which was a $14,000 theft from an area automobile gross sales enterprise.
The primary case entails an incident that happened on Friday, when an officer was out on patrol on South Bluff Road shortly after midnight and observed a car stopped on the fuel pumps of a comfort retailer situated close to the intersection of Bluff and Major Road that belonged to an individual who had numerous excellent warrants, in accordance with charging paperwork filed with the courtroom.
The officer ordered the driving force out of the automobile at gunpoint, which is when the officer famous there had been 4 juvenile occupants additionally inside the car that had been between the ages of 12-15, with one other juvenile approaching the automobile. All occupants had been ordered out of the automobile and the officer had every of the youths contact their mother and father to return and choose them up.
The report additionally states a glass pipe reportedly fell out of the automobile because the occupants exited, which additionally had a powerful odor of burnt marijuana, the report mentioned.
In the meantime, the automobile’s proprietor, later recognized as 21-year-old Jessie Mario Angel Clark, arrived on scene and whereas talking with officers, the suspect allegedly admitted to smoking marijuana with one of many juveniles earlier than, including the youths might have taken a few of the marijuana from his home previous to the cease.
Officers additionally had earlier interactions with Clark and reportedly knew him to regularly carry a firearm, and when requested, the suspect informed police he didn’t have a gun with him, that he left them at residence. The officer additionally famous the suspect admitted to having marijuana with no medical marijuana card, which made him a firearm restricted particular person.
Moreover, throughout the interview, Clark mentioned he had bought the glass bong from a store in Nevada, together with the marijuana reportedly discovered inside.
A witness informed officers the juveniles had been allegedly identified to frequent the suspect’s residence the place alcohol and marijuana had been not noted within the open.
The report additionally states that officers decided Clark had allegedly left the marijuana and the pipe within the automobile, the place “youngsters might entry it” the officer famous. Clark was arrested and the car was searched.
Officers recovered a number of marijuana-related gadgets throughout a search of his car, together with an oval tablet that turned out to be hydrocodone.
The officer additionally famous the suspect “intentionally” gave 4 juveniles illegally possessed medicine and allowed them to depart with them.
Officers then executed a search warrant on the suspect’s residence, the place they recovered a shotgun from the closet of the suspect’s bed room, together with ammunition and a number of THC cartridges nonetheless within the packaging.
Within the high dresser drawer they situated a big scale together with a pocket book seemed to be a ledger outlining what he was buying in addition to potential earnings, main officers to consider the suspect was dealing in primarily THC cartridges, edibles and digital cigarettes containing THC, gadgets reportedly bought from a dispensary in Nevada.
In keeping with the report, comparable managed substances had been additionally recovered from a juvenile’s room situated inside the house, the place police say the smoke alarm had been eliminated.
The suspect was transported to Purgatory Correctional Facility going through 5 first-degree felony counts of possession with intent to distribute a managed substance in a drug-free zone, together with 5 third-degree felony counts of inflicting or allowing a toddler to be uncovered to a managed substance.
Clark additionally faces a third-degree felony cost of possession of a firearm by a restricted particular person.
Moreover, officers ran a verify on the suspect that exposed two open circumstances nonetheless lively within the courts, together with a case filed in reference to a disorderly name reported on Jan. 21, when Uintah County deputies responded to a disorderly name in progress close to a residence in Gusher.
The decision got here into emergency dispatch from a lady reporting {that a} man, later recognized as Clark, went onto her property and tried to start out a bodily altercation with one of many residents.
Charging paperwork additionally said that responding officers had been additionally suggested there might have been a knife concerned.
Two of the witnesses on the scene informed officers they acknowledged the suspect as Clark. One of many males mentioned he was at residence ending his lunch when the suspect began yelling at him, so he ignored Clark as he continued throughout the road to return to work. Clark then ran over to the place he was working with a knife.
Clark continued pacing acing forwards and backwards on the sting of the property accusing the person of claiming one thing to him, and the celebration additionally informed officers the suspect was welding the knife as he threatened to stab him a number of instances
A witness additionally informed deputies the suspect continued yelling on the man, telling him he was going to kill him, which is when the reporting celebration took the knife from Clark that was later recovered by police.
Officers situated the suspect a short time later at his residence and he was arrested and booked into Uintah County Jail on third-degree felony aggravated assault.
One other pending case was filed in Washington County following an investigation right into a theft reported practically two months earlier at an car dealership in St. George.
In keeping with charging paperwork filed in that case, an worker of the dealership informed authorities that again in November, Clark had gone to a big automobile dealership the place he bought a Mustang for greater than $18,100, which he reportedly paid for by verify. The verify bounced a couple of days later, as did the second verify the suspect supplied in December.
Within the meantime, Clark went into one other native automobile dealership to promote the automobile, telling the worker he “needed to promote his automobile instantly – that very same day,” in accordance with the report.
After offering the title after which signing the settlement stating he owned the car, the automobile salesperson gave him a verify for $14,000, which the suspect cashed that very same day.
On Dec. 7, the next day, the automobile dealership the place the Mustang was bought contacted the automobile lot that purchased the car since each checks had bounced, at which level the Mustang was returned to the dealership the automobile was bought from.
The automobile lot that was out the $14,000 tried to make preparations with Clark to pay the cash again, nonetheless, the report states he by no means confirmed up. The worker additionally informed police the suspect reportedly informed the the worker that he knew the checks he had written to buy the automobile had been bouncing, and in addition mentioned he would come into the dealership to “make issues proper,” by paying the $14,000 again.
When the suspect failed to take action, the dealership known as the police.
Throughout an interview, Clark denied figuring out that the second verify to the dealership had bounced, and even when requested how the suspect wouldn’t know if that a lot cash left his account or not, Clark reportedly said he would discover if $18,000 left his account or not, which police say contradicted his preliminary assertion.
The suspect additionally informed officers he had tried to make preparations to pay the automobile gross sales lot again, however claimed the proprietor had threatened to trigger him bodily hurt so he by no means returned to the lot.
When officers returned to the automobile gross sales lot, they learn the textual content messages despatched between the worker and Clark which didn’t embrace any bodily risk, ”only a remark of urgency that he wanted to make proper the scenario and would name police if he didn’t.”
The suspect was charged with second-degree felony rely of theft by deception and arrested shortly thereafter. That case remains to be working its manner by the courts as nicely.
Following the arrest on Friday, the suspect stays in custody with out bail.
This report is predicated on data supplied by legislation enforcement and should not include the complete scope of findings. Individuals arrested or charged are presumed harmless till discovered responsible in a courtroom of legislation or as in any other case determined by a trier-of-fact
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