A man has been arrested on drug trafficking and other charges after deputies found a smorgasbord of pills during a traffic stop on the Western Kentucky Parkway.
Sunday evening at approximately 9:15, Grayson County Deputy Nick Pruitt conducted a traffic stop near the 109-mile marker of the eastbound parkway on a 2012 Mazda CX-7 with an inoperable tail light, according to the arrest citation.
Upon making contact with the driver, 50-year-old John L. Mays, of Louisville, he was attempting to “conceal pills inside his pants,” the deputy wrote in the citation. Pruitt then ordered Mays to place both hands on the steering wheel when the deputy observed the suspect “had a handful of white pills in his right hand.”
Mays then sped away from the stop, with Pruitt and Deputy Andy Cast standing directly next to the driver’s door. After fleeing for about one mile, Mays pulled into the emergency lane and stopped.
The suspect was then removed from the vehicle, resulting in “pills … falling out onto the ground,” the citation states.
During a search of Mays, additional pills were found in his pants and falling out of the openings of his pant legs, as well as in the vehicle’s floorboard.
A bag of marijuana was also found in the vehicle.
Once at the Grayson County Detention Center, more pills were found on Mays.
The pills, according to the citation, were opiates.
Mays was charged with trafficking in a controlled substance (opiates), second-degree wanton endangerment of a police officer, fleeing or evading police (motor vehicle), tampering with physical evidence, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, and improper equipment.
He is no longer listed as an inmate.
By Ken Howlett, News Director
Contact Ken at ken@k105.com
