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Criminal Behavior: Personal Narrative

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On 04/18/2016 I assisted Sgt. Patterson on a traffic stop in the 900 block of East K-53 HWY, Sumner County, Kansas. When I drove past I observed an older four door passenger vehicle stopped on the north side of the road with Sgt. Patterson's patrol vehicle behind it with emergency equipment activated. I turned around of K--53 and pulled in behind Sgt. Patterson, I activated my rear emergency lights and walked to the passenger side window of Sgt. Patterson's patrol vehicle. In the vehicle he had stopped I could see two white males sitting in the front driver and passenger seats, Sgt. Patterson was already back in his vehicle and was running the occupants information with SUCO 911. Sgt. Patterson told me that the passenger was moving around …show more content…

After speaking with Sgt. Patterson we decided I would arrest the passenger for the warrant and he would arrest the driver for DWS. I walked up to the passenger side door of the stopped vehicle and asked the passenger who was identified as Sean Schulte to step out of the vehicle. Schulte was very cooperative, as he stepped out he said he knew he had a warrant. I had Schulte turn around and place his hand behind his back, I placed hand cuffs on both of his wrist and checked for proper fit and double locked them. I then conducted a search incident to arrest. During my search of his person I located a cell phone, wallet and a can of chewing tobacco. Schulte was then walked to the back passenger seat of my patrol vehicle, I had him sit down and I placed a seat belt on him. Schulte was secured in the back cage of my patrol vehicle and the camera was turned to face the inside of the …show more content…

I asked Schulte if anything was in the vehicle that was going to hurt us when we inventoried the vehicle for impound. Schulte said nothing in the car was his, and to his knowledge nothing illegal was in the car except the empty beer cans in the back seat.

Sgt. Patterson began to inventory the vehicle on the passenger side. He imminently found a blue bag containing a dark brown substance consistent with black tar heroin. When he located that I began to search the driver side of the vehicle. I searched the driver side seat, driver side door and the back seat of the driver side. During my search I did not locate anything of interest except about 5 to 10 empty natural ice cans. Sgt. Patterson located more Hypodermic needles in the center

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