Stop at Friendly's Leads to Drug Charges for Mass. Man

CONCORD, NH - A Massachusetts man was arrested last month on drug charges and held on cash bail after reportedly being found passed out in the parking lot of a local restaurant.

Verdan Gojkovic, 25, of Goodyear Avenue in Melrose, MA, was arrested at 8:09 p.m. on May 10, 2016, on two counts of felony possession of controlled drugs-heroin, suboxone and possession of prescription drugs without a prescription-gabapentin pills.

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Officers were sent to Friendly’s Restaurant on North Main Street for a report of a man and woman passed out in back of a Mercedes parked in the parking lot.

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Officers approached the vehicle and confirmed that there was a man and woman “unconscious” but “breathing” inside the car as well as “several pieces of drug paraphernalia (to include lighters, metal spoons, and Q-tips),” according to a court affidavit. The officers made “several verbal attempts,” attempting to wake them up and eventually did. The female subject woke up first and stepped out of the vehicle, according to the report, and as she did, one of the officers allegedly “observed a hypodermic needle in plain view on the front passenger seat underneath (the woman).” A spoon was also found, according to the report.

“During my conversation with (the woman) she admitted that she and the male in the driver’s side (who she identified as her friend) had used heroin earlier that day,” the reporting officer alleged. “(The woman), however, told us that she did not know what time they had last used heroin. (She) also stated that she did not know what town she was in or how they had gotten to their current location behind the Friendly’s.”

The driver – Gojkovic – also work up, agreed to a consent search of the vehicle, and officers allegedly found two prescription bottles, one with suboxone and another with gabapentin.

“Verdan claimed that while these prescriptions were not written to him, the people they were written for had simply left them in his vehicle several weeks prior,” the officer alleged.

Unsuccessful attempts were made to contact the names on the bottles, according to the report, with the female subject allegedly stated that Gojkovic was using the strips to “treat his heroin addiction.”

Gojkovic was arrested and during processing, officers allegedly found a plastic bag with white residue that later, field tested positive for heroin/opiates, according to the court affidavit. He was held on $12,000 cash bail and arraigned on May 11.