Crime & Safety
New York Man, Asleep At The Wheel, Busted On Drug Dealing Charge
Ryan Farrand of Brooklyn was reportedly passed out in Bow yesterday. After a field sobriety test, drugs and cash were allegedly seized.
BOW, NH — A New York man is scheduled to be in court next month after police received a complaint about a driver passed out behind the wheel of a vehicle, according to police. Ryan Farrand, 34, of Brooklyn, NY, was arrested on Feb. 23, 2018, for driving while intoxicated and possession of narcotics with intent to sell. Officers were sent to the Bow Mobil on South Street at just before 11 a.m. on Friday for a report of a man asleep behind the steering wheel of a vehicle, according to Sgt. Art Merrigan of the Bow Police Department.
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Officers were able to wake the driver and identified him as Farrand, according to a report.
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“After speaking with him, they requested he participate in field sobriety tests, and as a result, he was arrested for driving while intoxicated,” Merrigan alleged. “Also seized were 7 grams of a substance suspected to be heroin along with $3,426 cash.”
Farrand was released on $11,000 personal recognizance bail and is due in Merrimack County Superior Court on March 15.
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Last year, according to a report on Fox 59 in Indiana, Ferrand was stopped on I-70 in Morgan County, on his way back home to Brooklyn, and a police sniffing dog allegedly discovered 31,000 vape tubes filled with THC, with a street value of about $1.25 million. During an interview, Ferrand reportedly stated he thought the tubes will filled with legal, flavored liquids – but he allegedly wouldn’t speak to officers about where he got them or how much he paid for them. Ferrand joked that police thought he was Pablo Escobar, the notorious Columbian drug lord.
“I’m a regular nobody that drives a truck,” he quipped.
The traffic stop, according to the report, was considered to be the biggest drug bust in Morgan County history.
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Ferrand also did a two year stint in jail in New York back in 2009 for attempted robbery in the second degree, according to Arrest Tracker.
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