State Police Dog's Mile-Plus Track Nabs Fleeing Suspects, Drug Stash In Northeast Connecticut

WOODSTOCK, CT — A state police dog nabbed fleeing suspects and a stash of drugs after a track of more than a mile in extreme northeast Connecticut over the weekend, state police said.

According to an arrest report, at 4:51 p.m. Sunday, state police began receiving 911 calls about a single-vehicle crash along the 700 block of Route 171 in Woodstock. Callers said they saw two people fleeing the scene into a wooded area, according to an arrest report.

While firefighters tended to one passenger, the passenger told state police that the driver and another passenger had taken off on foot, according to an arrest report.

As the cooperative passenger was taken to Day Kimball hospital with minor injuries, state police dog Kash was called to the scene to begin a track, according to an arrest report.

After a 1.3-mile trek through a "heavily vegetated area," Kash located a woman who was a passenger in the vehicle near Pulpit Rock along Route 171. She was identified as Destiany Spencer, 41, of Putnam. She then fessed up that the driver was named James Brown, a 35-year-old from Danielson, according to an arrest report.

Kash also found a large bag in the woods containing a driver's license for Brown showing his Pomfret residence, along with plastic bags of suboxone, and a white "rock-like substance," according to an arrest report.

Kash continued a tack another third-of-a-mile to a "large body of water" and located Brown, according to an arrest report.

He had on him fentanyl, cash and drug paraphernalia, according to an arrest report.

Brown was charged with evading responsibility, driving while under suspension, failure to drive in the proper lane, driving an unregistered vehicle, driving without minimum insurance, failure to keep narcotics in their original container, the sale of a narcotic substance, operating a drug factory, possession of a controlled substance and interfering with police, records show.

Spencer was charged with interfering, records show.