Routine traffic stop turns into drug, gun bust

  • Suspected drugs, drug paraphernalia and weapons and ammo seized after a traffic stop in Falmouth are displayed at the police department. Photo courtesy of Falmouth Police Department.
    Suspected drugs, drug paraphernalia and weapons and ammo seized after a traffic stop in Falmouth are displayed at the police department. Photo courtesy of Falmouth Police Department.
  • Brooklyn Aulick
    Brooklyn Aulick

    Routine traffic

    stop turns into

    drug, gun bust

     

    FALMOUTH — What began as a routine traffic stop May 11 quickly escalated into a significant drug and weapons seizure, with a local women taken into custody, according to Falmouth police.

    Brooklyn Aulick, 24, of Falmouth, is charged with five counts of disregarding stop signs, five counts of failure to use a traffic signal, careless driving, trafficking in marijuana, trafficking in methamphetamines, trafficking in fentanyl and possession of drug paraphernalia.

    Police Sgt. Brody Schmeing said that investigation is ongoing and is part of a wider investigation. He said additional arrests are expected in the coming days.

    In this case, Schmeing said that while on routine patrol about 10:30 p.m. May 11, he noticed a vehicle “committing multiple traffic violations on Licking Steet.” The southbound vehicle ran several stop signs and failed to signal at several intersections, police said.

    He was able to pull over the vehicle at the intersection of Broad and Main streets.

    Schmeing said that he ordered the driver out of the vehicle and asked her if she had any weapons. She revealed a pistol tucked into her front waistband, the report states.

    During a frisk for additional weapons, Schmeing found a small, clear plastic bag containing a white substance, suspected to be methamphetamine, in the woman’s fleece pocket, the report states.

    This triggered a probable cause search of the vehicle. Police confiscated “what can only be described as the tools of illegal drug trade”:

    • A Springfield Armory 9 mm handgun;

    • Approximately 5 grams of suspected fentanyl;

    • Approximately 1.3 grams of suspected methamphetamine;

    • More than a pound of marijuana-based products;

    • Two digital scales;

    • Empty packaging materials;

    • A receipt bearing a white, powdery residue, suspected to be fentanyl;

    • $40 cash;

    • Two iPhones—one pink and one black.

    The driver was taken into custody without incident, according to the report.

    During a post-arrest interview, she admitted ownership of the methamphetamine and marijuana, but said the fentanyl belonged to her passenger, the report states.

    With verbal consent, police searched both phones, which belonged to the driver.

    “The devices contained alarming evidence—messages and photographs suggesting an active role in the distribution of methamphetamine, marijuana and Xanax,” the police report states. “A search warrant will be pursued for a comprehensive forensic analysis of the phones.”

    Aulick was booked into the Bourbon County Detention Center but since has been released on her own recognizance.