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September 19, 2018
Man Buys Meth And Doesn’t Return With Vehicle

AMIE REMER, Editor An Arkansas man has been charged after he reportedly took a car without the owner’s permission to buy some methamphetamine and never returned. Leonard L. Wiley, 38,

An Arkansas man has been charged after he reportedly took a car without the owner’s permission to buy some methamphetamine and never returned.

Leonard L. Wiley, 38, of Fort Smith, has been charged with unauthorized use of vehicle, falsely personate another to create liability, possession of controlled dangerous substance and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia. He is now scheduled for a Sept. 19 felony disposition docket.

Roland Police Officer Duwaine Chase reported on Sept. 1 he received information from dispatch concerning a possible stolen vehicle at Cherokee Casino Roland. Dispatch told Chase a 2012 Ford Fusion with Oklahoma tags had reportedly been stolen in Van Buren, Ark.

Chase located the car on the third level of the parking garage, parked backwards in a parking spot near the elevator/stairs and dispatch confirmed it was the stolen vehicle.

Officer Katherine Raney arrived to assist and went inside the casino to advise security the vehicle had been found and officers needed to view security footage for the purpose of apprehending the suspect.

Casino security told Chase they located the male subject who’d parked the car inside the casino and they would stay with the vehicle so he could make contact with the male subject inside.

A security officer pointed out the male subject to Chase and Chase handcuffed the man and detained him. During a pat down, he located a Ford key hanging from the pocket of the man’s shorts. When the officer asked the subject his name, he refused to give his information.

While retrieving the man’s identification from his pocket, the officer found a baggie containing a white crystal substance and placed him under arrest for possession.

The name on the identification didn’t appear to match the subject and the man was later identified as Wiley. Raney then transported him to the Roland Police Department while Chase stayed and viewed security footage. The footage showed Wiley arriving at the parking garage in the car, wearing the same clothes he was when he was detained.

While conducting an inventory of the car Chase found a metal cylinder containing a white crystal residue and a cell phone.

Raney called Chase and told him Wiley was now being truthful about his identification and a wrecker was called to take possession of the vehicle until Van Buren Police Department could clear it to be released to the owner.

Wiley agreed to speak with the officer at the police department and told him he’d been in a relationship and was living with the owner of the vehicle for approximately two months. He said the owner had allowed him to drive the car on multiple occasions.

Wiley said the two got into an argument and he left in the car to reportedly find some methamphetamine but did not return to the residence with the vehicle afterwards. He claimed the methamphetamine found on him was what he was saving for the owner once he returned back to the residence.

Wiley was transported to the Sequoyah County Detention Center where he was booked in on his charges. The white crystal substances tested positive for methamphetamine and the baggie and metal cylinder were sent to the OSBI lab for further testing.

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