By KALIN KROHE
Panhandle Post
On Feb. 17 Chadron police officer Sam Cafferty and Lt. Gabe Walz responded to a call of a suspicious vehicle in the parking lot of a gas station. The reporting party said the vehicle had been parked in front of the gas pumps for a very long time and was worried.
Officer Cafferty and Lt. Walz arrived and contacted the driver of the vehicle, 23-year-old Amanda L. Koger. While contacting Koger, Lt. Walz observed drugs and drug paraphernalia inside the vehicle. Based on the observation, a search was conducted and 8 tablets of suspected Fentanyl were located.
Koger disclosed she and her boyfriend were staying in a local hotel room in Chadron.
Based on Lt. Walz’s and Officer Cafferty’s investigation, they applied for and obtained search warrants for the vehicle Koger had been driving and for the hotel room she was staying in. Both warrants were served.
"The warrant for the vehicle resulted in seizure of several items of drug paraphernalia," Chadron Police Chief Rick Hickstein said. "The warrant for the hotel room resulted in the seizure of 28 tablets of suspected Fentanyl, residue amounts of suspected methamphetamine, less than an ounce of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. The investigation revealed Koger had been staying in the room with her boyfriend, identified as 25-year-old Damion Glenn. Glenn was contacted by law enforcement and had an active warrant for his arrest out of Colorado for motor vehicle theft and failure to appear."
Koger was arrested for possession of Fentanyl and Possession of Methamphetamine, both Class IV felonies.
Glenn was placed was arrested for Possession of Fentanyl, Possession of Methamphetamine, Possession of Marijuana less than an ounce and for the warrants out of Colorado for motor vehicle theft and failure to appear.
Both were taken to the Dawes County Jail and booked into custody. Bond is not known for either at this time.
The Chadron Police Department was assisted by the Nebraska State Patrol and the Western Intelligence and Narcotics Group (WING) Task Force.