Lafayette PD Busts Moraga Man - Methamphetamine and Oxycodone

In Lafayette Police Chief Mike Hubbard's regular talks with City Manager Steve Falk it appears the chief shared details of an encounter one of his officers had with the local citizenry one day in July.

It appears Officer Ryan Sullivan was on patrol when he came across two cars parked at the end of Silverado Drive.  Sullivan contacted three occupants of the cars and determined that the two men and a woman weren't being entirely truthful with him.

"The woman said she was driving to Moraga and 'ran into' her friend," Chief Hubbard related.  "Officer Sullivan asked how she happened to 'run into' her friend at the end of a dead-end road."

Things got a little sticky as Sullivan checked the identies of the three parkers and found that one of them, a 24-year-old Moraga man, was on probation.  He asked if there was anything illegal in the man's car and he replied there was not - a contradiction to Sullivan's discovery of methamphetamine and some pills in a plastic vial in the car's center console.

The Moragan said the meth was not his and that "other people" drive his car all the time. Sullivan asked about the pills and the man said they were Prozac and - it turned out later - Oxycodone.  City Manager Falk, who should be a detective, queried about how the man knew about the pills in the vial - but not the meth.

As you may suspect, Sullivan discerned he wasn't getting the truth and nothing but the truth from his group of "dead-enders."  The Moraga man was arrested and booked for possession of drugs.