Man With Lots Of Saliva And Pot Spits In Police Cruiser: Police

WALTHAM, MA — What started out a routine traffic stop after a State Trooper noticed a car flying through a rotary in Lynnfield, ended up a drug bust complete with spit flying, and one man arrested Thursday evening.

Police arrested Jason Hunter, 41, of Watham and charged him with possession of 5 pounds of marijuana, a class B drug, with intent to distribute (not his first time), and with driving on a suspended licence, and for malicious damage of property (spitting in the cruiser).

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At around 4:25 p.m. Sept. 7, Massachusetts State Trooper James Maloney was patrolling Route 129 in Lynnfield when he saw a blue Mercedes-Benz E320W accelerate into the Goodwin Circle rotary. The speed of the vehicle created an unsafe condition merging into and exiting from the rotary, according to the report so the trooper looked the car up in the system, which indicated the driver's licence was suspended.

Right from the get, go, according to police the man refused to show police a driver's licence but did have an id, which confirmed he was the driver and operating the car on a suspended licence.

Next up, the trooper asked the man to get out of the car, but as he was getting up, he allegedly reached for his right hip, prompting the trooper to handcuff him and placed him under arrest.

The suspect grew extremely agitated and verbally hostile, according to police from the back of the cruiser while the officer was conducting an inventory of the car, which is standard practice for police when arresting someone.

He allegedly found the jackpot in the back of the car: Five large vacuum sealed bags of green leafy vegetable matter, believed to be marijuana, each weighing approximately one pound.

When the trooper returned to the cruiser, Hunter had allegedly been busy and managed to partially open the plastic window dividing the front seats from the rear seats and spit saliva all over the screen of the mounted laptop, the steering wheel, the dashboard, and the windshield.

The trooper removed the suspect from the rear of the cruiser and placed him in a seated position on the sidewalk while he cleaned the spit from inside the cruiser. The suspect then began spitting on the exterior of the cruiser, according to police.

Hunter allegedly kept this up, and was verbally hostile, while he was transported to the barracks for booking, making statements about the trooper and police officers in general.

Image courtesy of Massachusetts State Troopers.