A routine traffic stop was anything but routine recently when police discovered the car stopped was stolen.
Shortly before midnight Thursday, April 7, police were running radar on West Pickens Road when a green car was observed traveling west on Pickens Street with the right headlight out.
The driver was James Casey Dray, 37, Rocky Comfort, Mo. The passenger, Kendra Lynne Stanley, 33, Rocky Comfort, Mo., told police she had been drinking and that was why Dray was driving. Both Dray and Stanley were wanted on multiple warrants out of multiple agencies, according to the police report.
The vehicle was reported stolen out of Bentonville. The original owner was contacted to pick up the car.
While inventorying Stanley's property, police found a cigarette box with a "half-rolled marijuana cigarette ... a small plastic baggie with crystals in it, believed to be meth" and items belonging to the vehicle owner's grandmother.
Both Dray and Stanley were taken to the Benton County Jail. Dray was booked for felony theft by receiving, failure to appear warrants out of Rogers, Bentonville and Bella Vista. Stanley was booked for felony theft by receiving, felony possession of controlled substance-meth, possession of controlled substance-marijuana, and warrants out of Benton County and Bentonville. Dray was still in the Benton County Jail Wednesday, April 20, in lieu of $16,500 in bonds.
Stanley was released on $6,007 in bonds.
General News on 04/27/2016