Police say Officer Nic Abts-Olsen stopped a man driving a auto with the headlights off Thursday night near Martin Luther King Jr.
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A unique holiday safety message from Seattle’s police department features a dashcam video of the recent arrest of a 73-year-old motorist.
“After pulling over the 73-year-old man, Officer Abts-Olsen checked his license and registration, and walked back to the Toyota, where he saw the driver portioning out a scoop of cocaine from a small glass vial”.
“What’s that in your left hand?” he asks him in the video.
Abts-Olsen was more stunned than anything.
“Are you kidding? You’re about to snort coke on the side of the road?”.
The traffic stop was recorded by the officer’s dashboard camera and the department posted the footage to YouTube.
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The man initially denied having any cocaine, though he admitted he had “vitamins” in his possession and later came clean, admitting that doing a pinch of pure Colombian while pulled over was probably not the best idea. “How appropriate. I mean, it did include an old man and lots of white powder…”, the Autoevolution website joked. “I’ve never even had a traffic ticket”. “I was just going to come up and give you a warning”.
