on this episode of State boys a North Carolina man is pulled over by a trooper for minor traffic violations after asking where he's coming from the driver's story doesn't make any sense a k9 was called to the scene and the troopers make a discovery what will the Troopers [Music] find do let me boys don't play St Boys on theate make is Goods of the on the [Music] high seat State boys body the count footage from your Louisiana State Police multiple Sheriff officers and City police Webster Parish on August 2nd 2022 a trooper with the Louisiana State Police Troop G noticed the hunter core commit traffic violations after catching up to the vehicle the trooper made contact with the driver 45y old Howard Davis and tells him the reason for the Stop how's it going I expected you to be a Miss Bullock when I ran the tag came back to a lady named Bullock is that your wife I got you my name is tro Wardell at the State Police it took me a minute to stop you cuz everybody's in the left lane won't get out of the way the reason I came to stop you is when you pass me back there you got right in behind that van in the right lane and y'all are riding like one car length apart from each other if he has to slam on his brakes or if there's anything over one of these Hills y'all have no chance like there's no way you're going to be able to stop so we recommend that anytime you're on the interstate at 70 mph at these speeds at least seven car L is needed to stop if there's an emergency so if you find yourself right you either got to back off or you got to go around them do you have a driver's license I can check out must be a big Bob Marley fan I see all the the red green and yellow stuff according to the court documents as the trooper was talking to the driver The Trooper could smell a overwhelming odor or air fresheners the trooper looked inside the vehicle through the window and saw a large black ice Christmas tree freshener on a dashboard there were also two air fresheners on the C pillar and another one above the trunk area between the headrest and the seat the trooper also noticed several empty cans of energy drinks 23 yeah I walked up expecting to be talking to a female 165 s 18 L8 wife or girlfriend which one why I just notic you had a different last name I got you I got you if you roll that window up it'll be easier to hear you cuz the trucks are going by with that window down all I can hear is the trucks uh do you have her registration Insurance oh I'm sorry you gave me the ins do you have the registration card that's probably it oh this must be old old she must have had this car a while this from 2011 think that's probably she she apparently she apparently keeps all of them or no this is some this is who ever had the car before I guess Luis Clark the trooper then ask the driver which is from North Carolina why is he traveling through Louisiana you still living at Luther Road yes good address I'm leave you this back what brings you all the way down to see us down here hi guys they live here in Louisiana yeah they live right oh okay you a you ain't from here down here are you I got I I grew up in streetport that's my that's where I live how long you been with us in streetport how'd you end up knowing somebody from where I'm from oh no I went School ah I got you well how' they end up in streetport I gu that's I should say Street port's bad right now man yeah it's violent down here they got a bunch of bunch of gang activity in sh right now people getting car jacked and broad daylight which neighborhood they live in down here like you know which which interstate it's off of which Road it's off of I got you yeah no problem just see if you can find that for me why why you do that I'm going to go check in your license I'll be back while checking his license the trooper found out that he had a lengthy criminal history including charges for trafficking cocaine illegal firearm possession flight from a police and resisting the officer according to the arrest report the trooper became suspicious of the story that Davis gave him as into why he was traveling through the area the trooper was able to receive information from a license play reader indicating that the vehicle had hit in North Carolina during the early morning hours just the day before the traffic stop and they also hit again at evand in Dallas [Music] Texas did you find it she said she uh she said that's the one the little C right there let me see what you yeah I told you got she just got it ready like how long has she had the car like years or weeks okay yeah so she needs to keep the newest registration CU that's the one you handed me it shows it's valid through June 15th 2011 so like there should be one that says valid through June 23 or whatever you know the one that I C that's the that's the C right let me see that this is it he got it tell her tell her she's good he got it appreciate it ma'am according to the case documents the vehicle was registered to a Miss bullet 13 days before the traffic stop from the trooper training and experience the trooper knew that drug trafficking organizations will use the same vehicle to travel but will frequently re to the plates to evade license plate readers Mr Howard try to make sure your license is valid and everything you must work out you didn't look that big in the car you don't got no guns besides them two on you do you no I saw you had a little history you had you had some gun charges that's what I asked you don't carry anything on you am I okay to check you what you got your belt tied together with I left the belt man I I left the belt I I got you so look so I'm trying to figure out where in Street for have you been at like which which hospital did y'all go to see I ain't too familiar with it like you reason to ask you know like you came all the way over here to see my town like you ought to know at least what street or what hospital or something I went to um what's that the damn hospital soon you come off the thing right there the big hospital you got like five or six of them in son I can't remember the name of this well look here's the thing it ain't nothing personal but what I do while I'm out here is if I feel like somebody's nervous or being deceptive with me you know I like to ask more questions just make sure they're not doing anything they're not supposed to be doing okay so we get a lot of crazy stuff out here we get people hauling people we get people hauling illegal money guns people hauling uh trafficing dope okay you got a little bit of history of that okay so like I said it's nothing personal that's just why I'm making sure your story is what you say it is okay after being confronted by his story The Trooper asked for consent to search the vehicle so were you in Dallas region streetport I was in Dallas so why are you not being straight with no I was in Dallas I dud when we went over there uhuh i h out in Dallas what's L okay yeah well look you've been through this before okay I'm going to ask you consent to search your vehicle do you have any uh large amounts of US currency like $20,000 or greater you have any guns in the car no do you have any cocaine no any marijuana methamphetamine no okay would you give me consent to search no I ain't going to give you cons sear okay look that's your right okay so what I'm going to do I'm going to run my dog around your car I'm just going to have you hang tight right here here while we wait okay you don't have any uh I know I checked your pockets a little bit but like you don't have any knives or anything like that do you mind emptying your pocket just so I can make sure you don't have any weapons I I know you don't have a gun in your pocket money money what's in the back pockets and nobody else in the back seat or in the trunk or nothing like that okay all right what's pull that back out what's the pink bag there oh no that just J and I had a m I was playing a lot of okay I got you all right so my my dog's right around the corner I'm just going to have him come to an open air snip as long as he says the car is clean man I'm going to get you out here okay but right now just based on the circumstances you are detained not free to leave okay when's the last time you got arrested I mean I got you criminal history pulled up I just didn't look at my five years old years was that one of the trafficking are you on feral prob K 61 Florida Chevrolet SUV how much cocaine do you get caught with I know there was more than one time but like he it's I put an ounce or two ounce or two cuz I saw some of it was coke some of it was crack and some of it was base yeah that's what were you doing like some street level stuff yeah but I end up going to they all got this miss all that I got you well look you ain't it ain't nothing personal man it's just you know that's my job it's you want you ain't been real straight with me about where you where you've been at you know so so have you been in streetport for a few days yeah I just I told you okay so you don't know what street in streetport you don't know what hospital I can't remember the hospital but basic I mean who's your friend that lives here Steve Steve Steve what Steve Jones and his mom you said got Co cancer cancer and she's in the hospital here and you went and saw her with him yeah y'all go in this car got got charger so has anybody else been in this car besides you like anybody drove this car beside you anywhere girl like I'm talking about since you've been here girl where where' she go so how'd you end up in Dallas explain that to me we went to New Allen to what that new Allen what is that that's where all the bars is l l it's called l i I'm not from over there I just I know some guys that work up there that I work with but I don't I ain't never lived over there I live in fre it's so when did you go to Dallas like what time time frame I know somebody just got shot or something so I guess let me ask you this how many how many physical days have you been in streetport see like what what is the exact date you arrived in streetport from North Carolina you almost got me with that b my B what you chewing on what' you spit out jump right now you almost got me Sor so what day did you get to streetport I came I came stre about two days ago I was in Dallas you at least know the name of the club [ __ ] lell you know how bad l l Ellen got you ain't gave me one good name for or Dallas but Lou Allen got so many bars out there it's like everybody out there just minging well look like I said we're going to get this over with we'll be cool with you if you're cool with us you Ain you ain't going to take off running or fight us or anything are you cuz you got some you got some history with resisting that's I'm being cool with you but we got to keep it cordal yeah yeah another Trooper arrived to the scene about 8 minutes after he denied consent the search the trooper and his K9 Mingo performed an open air sniff around the vehicle d f [Music] the K9 alerted on the right side of the vehicle and the trooper explains the Howard about the alert and the Troopers search the vehicle look he's going to come back and explain to you how all this works I know what it looks like on the dog alerts on the car and the Handler just gave me the signal yes that the dog alert is on the car okay look we've been totally cool with you you've been cool with us okay understand honesty goes a long way okay so if you got something small I don't care like some personal Ed stuff I'm not about to throw you in jail halfway across the country for some personal Ed stuff if you got something big and you want to be helpful and be honest and and stay help yourself Now's the Time yeah I ain't got nothing you ain't got nothing in the car I a no do do can see that's that's his expertise he'll explain it to you sir what's your name how Howard my name super dere man I'm okay not handle with State Police look my dog's training on four ERS okay marijuana cocaine here one and myth all right you have any of that in the car has there been been any of that in the car recently no no not that I know of not that you know of because this your car no my old lady car okay are you are you the only one that drives the car no somebody else drove a girl drove the last time somebody else drove it besides you yeserday look he did indicate he's a passive indicating dog which means he sits whenever he indicates okay he's s over here on this passenger side on the rear so he gives search okay are they going to find anything no not no okay he said he doesn't have any luggage that's what he's wearing we're going to search this one really good he said he's been inport for two or three days with his buddy and he just went to Dallas and flipped doesn't know anything about where he's going you got airers hanging on the fillers back here too all right I'm going to go and hit the trunk cuz he said he don't have no luggage [Applause] turn around turn around now after a very quick search the Troopers find something in the trunk of the vehicle and Howard Davis is placed under arrest all right make sure he's secur thoroughly search him and advise him of his rights oh then we know we've got kilos I'm going to snap a couple pictures we'll SE C 4 and A2 KS and we're going to start the the Tru I'm going to snap some pics uh I don't think there's any in there good job guys did you advising the red bag contain approximately 4.5 kog of suspected cocaine wrapped in black electrical tape the cocaine had a street value of over $110,000 the narcotics was seized and sent to a DEA laboratory for testing and it was confirmed to be cocaine Howard Davis 45 of North Carolina was arrested for possession with the attent to distrib cocaine Howard Davis took this case to trial and was convicted by a federal jury on November 29th 20123 for possession with intent to distribute 500 G or more of cocaine Howard Davis was sentenced to 262 months or 21 years 8 months in a federal prison followed by 5 years of supervised release