Jason Smith (Monroe County Sheriff”s Office).
An Ohio resident has been taken into custody after allegedly dispatching a bag of methamphetamine via a bank’s drive-thru pneumatic tube, as revealed by law enforcement in the state.
The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office reported that 46-year-old Jason G. Smith was apprehended on charges related to drug possession earlier this week.
The incident unfolded on December 3rd at a bank in Woodsfield, a quaint town situated approximately 120 miles east of Columbus, according to a press release from the sheriff’s office.
On that day, a bank employee reached out to deputies after discovering a “crystal-like substance consistent with methamphetamine” in a baggie that accompanied a transaction through the bank’s pneumatic system, according to authorities.
Law enforcement confirmed through testing that the substance found in the small bag was indeed methamphetamine.
Investigators concluded that the suspect unintentionally sent the methamphetamine to the bank while conducting a routine banking transaction via the drive-thru, the sheriff’s office stated.
Later, Smith was located in nearby Wayne Township by officers with the state’s Department of Natural Resources, the press release says.
After the defendant was detained, deputies were called. And, with the use of a police dog, they “recovered additional suspected drugs and drug-related items from Smith’s truck,” according to the sheriff’s office.
The defendant was then transported to the Monroe County Jail.
As of this writing, the defendant’s specific charges have not been made available on the Monroe County court system’s public docket.
Law&Crime reached out to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office for additional details on this story but no response was immediately forthcoming at the time of publication.
The sheriff’s office did offer a public service announcement about illicit drugs by way of their press release announcing the arrest.
“Illegal drugs don’t belong in bank drive-thrus — but they can be turned in at the Sheriff’s Office,” Monroe County Sheriff Derek Norman said in a statement. “No charges, no handcuffs, just help. We’d much rather safely take them off the street than see another unexpected ‘deposit.’”
