Discarded black box results in drug charge for biker

On October 27th,  Dierks Officer Turner Reed was patrolling Hwy 70 in Dierks. Reed observed a motorcycle traveling on Hwy 70 and noticed the motorcycle violating statute 27-36-221, driving with auxiliary driving lights.

Officer Reed had prior knowledge that the tags on the motorcycle were also expired.  Before they came to a stop, Reed said he saw a little black box being thrown by the operator of the motorcycle on the Rock Creek Bridge. 

Reed then requested Howard County Deputy Jake Eudy to go look on the bridge to find the object that was thrown. Upon search of the bridge, two plastic bags containing a white crystal-like substance weighing approximately 6 grams, suspected to be methamphetamine, inside the little black box. 

The operator of the motorcycle was identified as 49 year old Randall Allen Glasgow of Horatio. 

Glasgow was taken into custody and transported to the Howard County Sheriff’s Office. Glasgow confessed that the black box was his and he admitted to throwing it.

Glasgow was charged with possession of a controlled substance.