'Bath Salt' Arrest Protects Kids & Earns Creve Coeur Officer Honors
Officer Thomas Exline was awarded a Certificate of Recognition during a ceremony last month because of his work in an April arrest.
Cases involving synthetic drugs known as "bath salts" have drawn headlines for the behavior they've allegedly caused around the country. Everything from a Georgia man who police there said had "super human" strength and threatened to eat faces, to the reported death of a Missouri man who died after using them last year. Creve Coeur has not been immune to "bath salt" cases. According to police, a woman was stopped April 30, near Olive Boulevard and Craig Road because she wasn't wearing a seatbelt. The officer involved in the case, Thomas Exline, noticed two young children in the car and noted that the driver was "nervous and sweating profusely," according to police. When the driver consented to a vehicle search, she admitted to having drug-…
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Scott Simon
10:04 am on Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Interesting. An award for an arrest but no criminal charges two months later. more ›