3 Arrested After Police Find Crack Cocaine, Heroin in Car of Swerving Driver: Plainfield Police

A driver was under the influence of crack cocaine when police pulled him over in Plainfield, leading to the arrest of him and two others, police said.

Jewett City driver Jason Andrews, 31, and his passengers, Cassandra Kunkel, 35, of Jewett City, and Ashley Miller, 22, of Norwich, are facing drug charges after a motor vehicle stop early Tuesday evening. Police received a complaint at 5:39 p.m. that a motorist in a black Chevy Impala with Texas plates was driving erratically near Norwich Road and Green Avenue, police said. Police found the car and stopped it in the Advanced Auto Parts parking lot in Plainfield.

Police said that the driver, Andrews was behaving like he was intoxicated or under the influence of drugs, so they ordered him to get out of the car. As he did so, police saw him discard a container on the ground that turned out to have a white rock-like substance inside. When questioned about it, he admitted to police that it was crack cocaine and that he was under the influence of the drug, police said.

Officers also spotted a syringe in his back seat, so they told all of the occupants to get out of the car. Plainfield and state police and a Putnam K-9 unit searched the vehicle and found several items of drug paraphernalia, crack cocaine, cocaine in powder form and heroin in the car. Police seized the drugs and a substantial amount of cash from the vehicle.

Police charged Andrews with driving under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol, operating a motor vehicle under suspension, failure to use a turn signal, possession of narcotics and possession of drug paraphernalia. Miller was charged with two counts of possession of narcotics and possession of drug paraphernalia and Kunkel was also charged with possession of narcotics.

Miller and Kunkel are due in court on April 20 and police did not release information on the court date for Andrews.

A fourth person in the vehicle was not charged.

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