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Deputies find over 400 prescription pain pills in vehicle stopped on I-75
Posted On 07 Mar 2010
A Whitley County Sheriff’s Deputy arrested three Lexington residents Thursday morning, who were returning to Kentucky after one of them visited a Florida pain clinic and had over 400 pills in the vehicle.
Whitley County Sheriff’s Capt. Todd Shelley charged the driver, Damyon Zachary Skudlarek, 34, with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence and operating on a suspended operators license.
He charged passengers Neil T. Root, 33, and Johnny B. Gerald, 44, both with public intoxication.
Shelley received a complaint of a black car driving erratically on I-75 shortly before 8 a.m. Thursday.
He first spotted the 2004 black Pontiac car near Exit 15 and stopped it near the 18-mile marker.
"The vehicle was all over the roadway," Shelley wrote on an arrest citation.
The driver and both passengers had slurred speech, and failed field sobriety tests, according to arrest citations.
Skudlarek told police that he had taken three Oxycodone pills and one Alprazolam pill. Root told police he had taken some Oxycontin and Gerald told police that he had taken some Oxycodone, according to arrest citations.
Shelley said that the Skudlarek had recently visited West Palm Beach Pain and Recovery Clinic in Florida.
He had prescriptions for both drugs that he had taken, and police found 385 Oxycodone pills along with 51.5 Alprazolam pills in the vehicle, which were in their proper containers.
All three were lodged in the Whitley County Detention Center.
Because the pills were in their proper container, Shelley inventoried them and turned them in at the jail with Skudlarek’s other property that he can pick up when he posts bond.
Williamsburg K-9 Officer Brandon Prewitt assisted with the investigation.
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yes i was one of the victims of this arrest. I had been up for over 60hrs. its not funny when you end up in jail and because you”re tired, and the police put words in your mouth. They can do as they please with you. They asked me what kind of medicine I had taken before, so I told them. All was prescriped to me by a doctors at UK,go BIG BLUE. I got crushed by a 5500 pd metal industial break. No blood test or breathilizer they just took me to jail. I thankful I lived through the ordeal. I feel I was wrongfullly arrested and charged. We were theated right in the jail while being booked,in front of the same arresting officer and everyone there I guess because it was one of their own.they didn’t charge him. He thearted to kill us all and liave us on the side of the road, I gress I”m glad back up showed up. I know it is cheaper to pled guilty and pay the fine then its is to return to the county and take a chance of being found shot to death by the police department I really feel it needs to be investigated before this actually happens.
I think he meant “Realistic” instead of “Realisting” I make the same mistakes when I type fast and don’t proof read. He didn’t say anything happened to the Deputy, he just said He “probably got his butt reamed”. There is no need to stamp out bad spelling, what if anything does it prove? The corruption in Whitley County Kentucky is unbelievable.
Were you smart enough to catch that I misspelled school??
Hey spellchecker, i’m here to stamp you out. I stampout stupid loosers like you who have nothing better to do but TRY to look smart but fail at it. This isn’t highscool, its not going to be graded, get a life!!
Realisting? Not familiar with that word. And couldn’t you find a nicer phrase than you used to describe what was done to Todd?
Don’t thank me, it’s my job to stamp out stupidity where ever it may be.
Your welcome
I bet Todd got his butt reamed by Sheriff Hodge for not keeping the pills. It would have been a windfall for the Sheriff and he would’t have to go Doctor Shopping like he does in other states. Lets get realisting about it.