Police: Ice Cream Truck Sells Drugs
Undercover Officers Allegedly Witness Drug Deal
POSTED: 3:14 pm EDT August 2, 2005
UPDATED: 6:50 pm EDT August 2, 2005
CINCINNATI -- An ice cream truck was selling more than Popsicles and sugar cones Tuesday. Police believe drugs were being sold from the truck, News 5's Emily Longnecker reported.
Officials said shortly after 2 p.m., police received a call to search a white ice cream truck on Reading Road near Burton Avenue for drug activity.
Undercover officers watched the truck and eventually witnessed two people take items that clearly weren't ice cream from the truck, police said.
Police stopped the two men, one of whom was a 17-year-old boy. The other person, Larry Collier, ran from police, who used a Taser gun to apprehend and arrest him.
Investigators said they found a 45 mm handgun and a half kilo of cocaine on Collier. Police also found crack on the 17-year-old suspect, Longnecker reported.
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