Click It or Ticket Enforcement Yields Wanted DUI Suspect and a Stash of Pot in Children’s Toy Bag
Location: Route 2 and Saint James Church Road, Wilmington, Delaware
Date and Time: Saturday, May 29th, 2010, at 12:20 a.m.
Suspect(s): Alice VanDyke, 38, of Newark, Delaware
Resume: On Saturday, May 29th, a Trooper participating in the national Click it or Ticket Campaign initiated a traffic stop on a green Dodge Avenger for failing to maintain its lane on Route 2, Kirkwood Highway, in the area of Saint James Church Road.
The vehicle came to a stop in a parking lot adjacent to Saint James Church Road. The operator was identified as Alice VanDyke, 38, of Newark. Upon contacting the driver, the officer observed empty beer cans on the front seat and two children, girls ages 6 and 4, also in the car.
A DUI investigation ensued and Ms. VanDyke was eventually taken into custody. A routine computer check revealed she was wanted on two outstanding capiases from New Castle County Courts and that her driver’s license was currently suspended. She was also unable to provide any proof of insurance.
Ms. VanDyke was transported back to Troop 6 for processing. The children, who proved to be her nieces, were transported back to the Troop in another patrol car.
Once at the Troop, the children were placed in the care of the desk officer while the girls’ parents responded to the barracks. The girls had a toy bag with them and were playing while waiting for mom and dad. The desk officer noticed a clear plastic baggie amongst the toys in the bag. The officer inspected the baggie- which contained over 30 grams of suspected marijuana.
Officers learned Ms. VanDyke stuffed the baggie of suspected marijuana in the toy bag prior to being placed into custody.
Alice Van Dyke was formally charged with the following offenses: two counts of Endangering the Welfare of a Child Involving DUI (misdemeanor), Possession of Marijuana (misdemeanor), DUI, Driving While Suspended, Failure to Provide Insurance and Improper Lane Change.
After a sobering period, Ms. VanDyke was released on a $3,000.00 unsecured bond.
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ReplyDeleteClick it or ticket is a SEATBELT campaign, so how did seatbelt enforcement yield this, she wasn't charged with not having a seat belt on. Sounds like they want us to buy into the program designed to raise revenue.
ReplyDeleteGood thing the driver at Indy was buckled in, how about a sports clip of that wreck for all the folks that dont follow racing? One of the worst wrecks that I have ever seen.
ReplyDeleteClick it or Ticket is a front for citizen searches and confiscation of CIA material (illegal drugs).
ReplyDeleteIf it weren't for Click it or Ticket this person would have gotten away with smoking something illegal! Oh gosh! Yowzah!
Click it or Ticket is a GREAT WAY TO RAISE REVENUE for our State. Nobody CARES about the driver's safety. They want to search your car and smell your breath.
Thank you
to 11:41 seat belt checks and other traffic stops often yield bigger "fish" in stopping crime. Thats a bonus as to why their so effective. Timothy McVeigh-the Oklahoma City bomber was caught via a routine traffic stop. Or would you prefer he got away because of some stupid seat belt check that may or may not infringe upon your civil rights?
ReplyDeleteCome on folks. It's just as easy to roll a joint with the seat belt ON.
ReplyDelete12:44
ReplyDeleteUsing your logic, we should have nightly door checks where the cops go around the neighborhood and make sure everyones front door is locked. If a door is found to be unlocked, the police get to search your house.
Sounds fair after all dosen't it?
12:44
ReplyDeleteMcVeigh worked for the Feds. The F.P.Murrah Building was blown from inside. The Ryder truck was a distraction. McVeigh did not realize until it was too late that he was the fall guy.
It is what we call "the Patsy".
As for you, well, you may want to open your mind up just a tad and consider the likelihood that our government is not looking out for you and me. Wake up from your slumber. Our government is evil.
We are allowing our police to do whatever they want to us. We reserve nothing at all for our personal freedom.
ReplyDeleteWe do not want freedom. We want to be scolded, searched, punished, and surveilled upon by a police state. We love our own captivity.
We are pathetic and no longer deserve America. That is why we are losing it.
to 2.49 -this is 12:44I wasn't going to respond to your stupid remark, but, now after careful consideration-I must. You are so far off the path-your logic doesn't make sense. Under a traffic stop- a law has ALREADY BEEN BROKEN, AND THUS, THE REASON TO FURTHER THE SEARCH OR WHATEVER FOR DRUGS. GET IT. A LAW HAS ALREADY BEEN BROKEN. If the door to your house is unlocked- how is that going to invite police in to search??? NO LAW HAS ALREADY BEEN BROKEN. GET IT??????
ReplyDeleteGosh there are just plain stupid people in this world! There is absolutely no correlation to your argument.
Who made the law? Is it a Statute?
ReplyDeleteAmericans once rebelled against Statutory Law. We no longer serve Kings. We respect each other as sovereigns.
Leave me and mine alone. Police need to get a real job and stop tax collecting for the Man.
4:53
ReplyDeleteGosh you are just plain stupid!
There is no law already being broken when the cops stop people at checkpoints and conduct searches.
That was the whole topic of the article, stupid.
Reread the article and the posts. Cops don't have the right to roadblock and shake down the public anymore than they have the right to go door to door and conduct searches. Gosh talk about stupid, you take the cake!
What is wrong with you people?
ReplyDeleteDid you not read the part where she had a 6 yr old and a 4 yr old in the car while drinking and failing to stay in her lane.
Would you prefer the police officer had not stopped her? Would you prefer to be reading an article where she had injured or killed the children or someone else because she made the decision to drink and drive.
Not to mention the fact that she acted like a coward by shoving the dope in the girls toys. If she wants to risk getting caught with dope she should at least own up to it when she gets caught.