April 5-12: Meth Falls from Man’s Shorts During Search

One arrest at One Solution.

One man is in custody and another is being sought after a Saturday break-in at a medical marijuana dispensary a few miles north of Carmichael.

Sacramento County sheriff’s officers responded to a business alarm at One Solution on 5207 Madison Ave. in Sacramento shortly before 2 a.m. April 9. Upon arriving, a male suspect later identified as Tyrell Lawson, 18, was seen fleeing from the back of the business along with a second subject. Both men ignored an officer’s call to stop, fleeing the crime scene on foot, said a sheriff’s report.

Officers established a perimeter and found Lawson hiding in a residential backyard. The sheriff’s report says he was taken into custody by a K-9 officer, but not before battling with the dog and officers during the arrest.

Sheriff’s officials say the brick and mortar pot dispensary had been forcefully broken into with a pickaxe and that numerous items had been stolen. While they didn’t go into detail about what was taken, the business sells multiple strains of medicinal pot and cannabis-infused edibles.

Officers found a backpack containing items from the business as well as bolt cutters in Lawson’s direct flight path. Lawson was seen holding the backpack initially when he fled from officers, the sheriff’s report says. Lawson was booked into the Sacramento County jail on multiple charges of burglary and resisting arrest.

A reason for pants

Loose shorts and an active cellphone led to a drug bust in Carmichael Wednesday night.

Around 10:25 p.m. April 6, Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies stopped a vehicle at Manzanita and Madison avenues that was being driven by Roosevelt Moore, 31, of Antelope. When deputies approached Moore’s vehicle, they spotted him sliding a hand down the front of his shorts. The reason became clear moments later, when methamphetamine fell out of one of his short-legs during a search, said a sheriff’s report.

Deputies also found a cellphone with numerous text messages to different individuals that sheriff’s officials say identify Moore as a supplier of methamphetamine.

He was booked at the Sacramento County jail on felony drug possession charges, for which he is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday.

Costly opinion

An opinionated Carmichael woman gave investigating officers just enough reason to put her in handcuffs last week in North Highlands.

Officers were following up on a tip that a group of males were selling drugs in a parking lot near Ferigo Lane and Myrtle Avenue around 5:30 p.m. last Tuesday, when they were interrupted by Linda O’Connelly, 45, of Carmichael. According to a Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department report, O’Connelly stopped at the parking lot while officers were conducting a probation search of one of the five men and began shouting that the subjects didn’t have to consent to such a search.

A female California Highway Patrol officer on the scene approached O’Connelly to ask for identification, but was refused. The sheriff’s report says O’Connelly took a “fighting stance” to the highway patrolwoman, “and squared off to her chest to chest.”

O’Connelly initially resisted as one deputy attempted to put handcuffs on her, but she was ultimately arrested for resisting arrest and taken to the main jail in Sacramento.

No record of an arraignment or any other court proceedings were found for O’Connelly in an online search of the Sacramento Superior Court’s database. The five males that were the subject of the initial call were not detained.