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After the officer
checked the man's license and registration during the traffic
stop on Tuesday evening, the patrolman walked back to the man's
Toyota. When he peered into the car he saw the man "portioning
out a scoop of cocaine from a small glass vial," the department
said in a statement.
"What is that? Are you kidding?" Officer Nic Abts-Olsen can be
heard saying to the man in an exchange captured by the patrol
car's dashboard camera. "You're about to snort coke on the side
of the road?"
The man was startled to see Abts-Olsen and spilled the white
powder on his hands and on the car floor, telling the officer it
was "vitamins."
"Finally, the man relented, complimented Officer Abts-Olsen on
his keen detection skills and admitted that snorting cocaine in
the middle of a traffic stop was, perhaps, a poor decision," the
department's statement said.
The man was arrested and booked into the King County Jail for
narcotics possession.
Abts-Olsen told the man, who had an unblemished driving record,
that he was going to let him off with a warning for driving
without his headlights, but for the cocaine.
(Reporting by Eric M. Johnson in Seattle; Editing by Sandra
Maler)
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