Pot Smoke Smell Leads To Crack Pipe, Cocaine: Cops

MANCHESTER, NH — A local man who was a passenger in a pickup truck that was stopped in the Queen City was arrested on drug and bail condition violation charges last night, according to police. At around 7 p.m. on Dec. 14, 2017, officers stopped a pickup truck on Beech Street near Blodgett “after witnessing several motor vehicle infractions,” according to Lt. Brian O’Keefe of the Manchester Police Department. Officers “immediately” smelled “a strong odor of marijuana” as they spoke to the driver and his passenger, he noted.

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“(The driver) consented to a motor vehicle search, so both men exited the pick-up truck,” O’Keefe stated. “The officers located a glass pipe commonly used to smoke crack-cocaine on the passenger’s seat and a small white rock like substance believed to be crack-cocaine on the passenger’s side floorboard.”

Kyle Bernier, 26, of Manchester, was then arrested and charged with felony possession of a controlled drug-crack cocaine and a violation of bail conditions charge. He was arraigned earlier today in Hillsborough County Superior Court-North.

Bernier was indicted in Hillsborough Court-North earlier this year on a crack cocaine charge.

Image via Manchester Police.