A Leitchfield man asleep in a vehicle at DeWitt Park has been arrested on multiple drug charges only six weeks after being convicted of methamphetamine possession in Grayson County.
At 2:00 Tuesday morning, Leitchfield Police Department Sgt. Keith Harrell observed a male asleep in a Honda Pilot at the park, according to the arrest citation. Upon making contact with the man, 34-year-old Dustin W. Hines, he had “difficulty answering simple questions and had to ask where he was.”
When asked, Hines gave Harrell and Officers DJ Newton and Tamara Jupin consent to search the vehicle. At that moment, Hines “reached behind him and picked up a loaded needle containing a red liquid,” the citation states. And when Hines exited the vehicle, police found a plastic bag containing methamphetamine “in the driver’s seat where he had been sitting.”
Officers also located a bag containing 10 Neurontin (aka Gabapentin) pills behind the driver’s seat.
Hines was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine), having a prescription controlled substance not in its proper container and possession of drug paraphernalia.
He was lodged in the Grayson County Detention Center.
According to the Kentucky Department of Corrections, Hines was convicted in Grayson County on July 5, 2022, for possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine). He was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
In 2018, Hines was convicted in Jefferson County for receiving stolen property, complicity to commit third-degree burglary, complicity to theft by unlawful taking, tampering with physical evidence, complicity to theft by deception, complicity to receiving stolen property, trafficking in marijuana (less than eight ounces), second-degree criminal trespassing, and giving an officer a false name.
He is on probation until April 2027.
By Ken Howlett, News Director
Contact Ken at ken@k105.com
