By Scott Carlson-NP Post
A man and woman are in jail after a landlord/tenant dispute at a North Platte RV park led to the discovery of narcotics.
According to the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office, for the last couple of months, the owners of the Lincoln Highway RV Park have been in a dispute with one of the subjects who rented a camping space from them.
LCSO says the subject sued the RV Park owners, believing they were not able to evict them under the Landlord-Tenant Act.
According to LCSO, the subjects had stopped paying rent and utilities to the RV Park owners many months ago. Investigators say the owners of the RV Park patiently waited and did not evict the subject, although they could have under the law, until the court case was concluded.
LCSO says on February 17, the court ruled that RV Parks do not fall under the Landlord-Tenant act as campers are not permanent “dwelling units or buildings”. However, even after losing his court case, the subject did not remove his camper nor did he pay the back camper rent or utilities.
On February 23, at around 10:30 am, deputies arrived at the subject’s camper to remove him from the property and arrest him for theft of services.
Deputies met with 45-year-old Kevin Taylor and his girlfriend 20-year-old Andrea Flores, both were previously from California.
Upon meeting both subjects, LCSO says deputies immediately smelled the odor of burnt and raw marijuana coming out of the camper.
Taylor was arrested for the felony theft of services and transported to the Lincoln County Detention Center.
Investigators say Flores was detained as Deputies deployed the Sheriff’s Office K-9 around the trailer. The K-9 did indicate there were narcotics inside the trailer.
LCSO says a search warrant for the trailer was written and signed by a County Court Judge. Upon execution of the warrant, deputies searched the trailer and found numerous items of drug paraphernalia, about one ounce of Marijuana, about an ounce and half of suspected methamphetamine, and a large amount of cash.
Flores and Taylor were both arrested on suspicion of distribution of a controlled substance-methamphetamine and possession of marijuana.
Both were placed in the Lincoln County Detention Center.
The investigation in this matter continues and additional charges may be forthcoming, according to LCSO.
LCSO says all of this could have been avoided by paying the fees to the RV Park.
