PRINCETON — A Monday-morning report of a man wielding a knife turned into a drug bust for Princeton Police Department and the Southern Regional Drug and Violent Crime Task Force.
Forty-nine-year-old Daniel Dobos was charged with possession of controlled substances with the intent to deliver after authorities reportedly found him armed and carrying substantial amounts of cash and drugs in a doctor’s office parking lot.
Princeton Police Ptlm. E.T. Pugh responded to the dialysis center on Spring-haven Drive Monday, after witnesses there reported a man behaving strangely and wielding a knife in the parking lot. When Pugh arrived, Dobos was present in the lot and appeared to be doing something to the tires on a vehicle with the lock-blade knife, officers said this week.
Pugh soon recognized the the suspect.
“We’d had several complaints on him in the last few weeks,” Pugh said. “He’d allegedly been dealing out of there for a while.”
After speaking with Dobos and disarming him, Pugh searched the suspect, locating one bottle of prescription medication and a pocket full of cash totalling almost $1,000.
The officer then asked Dobos for consent to search his vehicle parked on the Springhaven Drive parking lot. Inside, officers reported finding multiple kinds of prescription medication and a lot more cash.
PPD Det. T.A. Bailey said drugs seized included OxyContin, Tylox, Xanax, hydrocodone and a partially smoked marijuana joint. In addition, an estimated $2,000 was found rolled inside a large prescription bottle covered in duct tape, and another $2,840 was uncovered inside a Hall’s Cough Drop bag.
In all, officers seized more than an estimated $5,700 in cash, and investigators said the drugs recovered on Dobos and in his vehicle would have brought “several thousand dollars” on the street.
Dobos, who is originally from Pawleys Island, S.C., lives locally in the Camp Creek area. He was charged earlier this year with animal cruelty, after witnesses reported seeing him dragging a dog behind his pick-up truck.
He was arraigned before Magistrate Jerry Flanagan Monday on the drug charges. Flanagan set bond at $10,000, but Dobos was still in custody in the Southern Regional Jail as of last report.
— Contact Tammie Toler at ttoler@ptonline.net.
Princeton Times
June 6, 2008
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