An Ohio man faces multiple drug possession charges, including for methamphetamine that Royal Oak, Michigan police say he put between his buttocks and briefly hid in his jail cell until he was busted again.
Suspect Nathaniel K. Cipriani, 28, of North Bend Ohio, is jailed on $50,000, 10 percent, bond.
Police became suspicious when they spotted the suspect sitting in a Dodge Charger with a license plate that was registered to a Honda in Kentucky on April 8.
Cipriani got out of the car as officers approached him and started walking away, police said.
Police noticed he was wearing an electronic tether and said he told them he was recently arrested for drug possession in Macomb County.
A K-9 unit was called to the Amoco gas station on Woodward Avenue south of 12 Mile Road.
Police said they found a small baggie of suspected heroin beneath the dashboard radio.
The suspect was arrested and taken to the police station.
During a search police said they found he had a glass drug pipe in the waistband of his underwear.
Small baggies of suspected fentanyl were discovered stuffed beneath the tether on his leg, police said.
During a review of Cipriani’s arrest at the gas station captured on a patrol car’s rear camera, police said he was seen stuffing something down his pants near his buttocks.
Police removed him from his cell in the lockup area to ask him about it.
Officers also reviewed video from the cellblock where the suspect was first placed.
Police said they discovered he had brought a small baggie of methamphetamine stuffed between his buttocks into the jail cell and hid it.
Officers recovered the methamphetamine. Cipriani has a lengthy criminal history and was wanted on a felony warrant in Macomb County for failing to appear for a hearing on a charge of bringing contraband into the county jail and possessing methamphetamine, police said.
The suspect is charged with three felony counts of narcotic drug possession, and a misdemeanor
-Mike McConnell, Tribune staff writer
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