SALINE COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a suspect on multiple drug allegations in Salina.
Just after 3:30p.m. Sunday, police made a traffic stop after witnessing a 2011 gold Dodge Ram 3500 pickup truck failing to yield at a stop sign near the 1200 block of West Crawford Street in Salina, according to Police Captain Mike Miller.
A police K-9 officer alerted on the truck, indicating the presence of narcotics.
"Officers did a search on the vehicle and located two pill bottles," Miller said. "One of them had 208 oxycodone pills, and the other bottle had an additional 33 oxycodone pills."
Miller said during past arrests, some officers recovered pills that looked near-identical with oxycodone but turned out to be fentanyl or oxycodone dupes laced with fentanyl.
Since the pills lacked a drug tax stamp or any other documentation, officers arrested 34-year-old Jacob Wayne Thompson. Miller said due to the pills' unknown maker or distributor, police sent the tablets to a lab to test for fentanyl.
Thompson also had a 9-year-old child traveling in the truck with him when officers conducted the traffic stop. Police requested charges for aggravated endangerment of a child, distribution of a stimulant, lack of drug tax stamp and drug paraphernalia.
Thompson is also required use an interlock device to drive legally. Thompson had in the truck, but it was not correctly connected, according to Captain Miller.