Traffic Stop Leads To Large Cocaine Seizure After Suspect Crashes Into Vehicle

Kalamazoo, MI: On March 6th, 2013, KVET officers from the Community Outreach Problem Solving Division, (C.O.P.S.) attempted to conduct a traffic stop in the 3000 block of S Westnedge on a wanted subject. While attempting to stop the vehicle, the driver fled from officers by driving in reverse through a parking lot at a high rate of speed. While doing so, the driver collided with another unmarked police vehicle that was pulling into the same parking lot. The fleeing suspect then also rammed the cruiser that originally initiated the traffic stop before the driver gave up and was placed under arrest.

Kalamazoo, MI: On 2-13-2013 at approximately 0730 hours, KVET Officers from the Community Outreach and Problem Solving Division, (C.O.P.S.), and officers from the Kalamazoo Metro Swat Team, executed a search warrant in the 3100 block of Crystal Lane in Oshtemo Township. The search warrant stemmed from tips from concerned citizens’ that drug trafficking had been occurring there.

Officers executed the search warrant and located a large amount of heroin having a street value of over $3000, several scales, packaging equipment, and marijuana. The suspect, a 28 year old Kalamazoo man, is on parole with the Kalamazoo County Parole Office and had an outstanding warrant for violating his parole. He was arrested on the charges of Possession With Intent To Deliver Heroin, Maintaining a Drug House, and on the parole warrant.