Police Charge Man With Taking Friend’s Truck, Coming Back With Drugs

Bristol Township police have charged a man after they say he took a man’s vehicle without permission outside of the Bailey’s Bar and Grille last winter and came back with drugs.

Dylan Jones, 30, of Levittown, was charged via summons with unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, use or possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a controlled substance, public drunkenness, and disorderly conduct in the late February incident.

According to an affidavit of probable cause, police in the township were called to a well-known bar on Emilie Road for reports of unauthorized use of a vehicle. The victim noted that after the men had been booted from a poker tournament, they had been sitting inside the 2006 Dodge Dakota. A short time later, Jones left in the vehicle without the owner’s permission, police said.

Jones’ friends even had to use someone else’s phone number when they contacted him so that he would answer his phone, according to court documents.

Officers noted that Jones later came back with the truck, and parked it in the nearby Acme grocery store parking lot. It was then that officers noted Jones was belligerent. While Jones admitted to consuming alcohol, he arrived back on the scene with bloodshot eyes and proceeded to yell and scream at the victim when asked to quiet down. “I only moved the truck 5 foot,” Jones said, according to an affidavit of probable cause.

Officers found a glass smoking pipe with burnt ends and a copper insert on the driver’s side of the vehicle, in addition to two partial pink pills wrapped in plastic, an unused syringe, and pieces of another used syringe, as noted in police documents. According to lab records, the smoking pipe tested positive for cocaine, and the pink pills for buprenorphine. Buprenorphine is commonly used to treat opioid addiction, moderate acute pain, and moderate chronic pain.

Jones awaits a preliminary hearing scheduled for October 13.