Needles, Speed Found In Car In Traffic Stop

Spokane police who stopped a car because its taillights were on the blink discovered the vehicle was stocked with a half-dozen hypodermic needles, three baggies of methamphetamine, two scales and several allegedly stolen items.

The car pulled into a driveway in the 1600 block of West Sixth after police signaled for the driver to stop.

The driver, Mark Rankin, 30, 1612 W. Sixth, told police the car didn’t belong to him but to his two passengers.

Rankin also told police he didn’t have his driver’s license with him.

Police checked Rankin’s story and found that his driver’s license had expired two years earlier. In addition, police discovered that the car’s license plates were registered to a different vehicle.

Police questioned the car’s two passengers, Vincent E. Dorsey, 29, 1023 E. Courtland, and Melissa N. Moon, 20, 2021 E. Mission about the items found in the car, including an air compressor, which apparently had been stolen from a house in Browne’s Addition.

Dorsey and Moon were booked into jail on charges of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver and possession of stolen property.

Rankin was cited for driving without a license, police said.

, DataTimes