Traffic stop turned violent, police say

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By Cynthia Pegram

Published: August 3, 2008

A Lynchburg police officer was injured after police say a driver assaulted him during a traffic stop Saturday night.

Jonathan Smith, 32, of Lynchburg was arrested and charged with assault and battery of a police officer, possession with intent to manufacture, sell or distribute a controlled substance and reckless driving, said officer C.L. Deaner of the Lynchburg Police Department.

The injured officer, whose identity is not being made public, was taken to Lynchburg General Hospital where he was treated and released with minor injuries, Deaner said.

The incident began at about 10:30 p.m. on McConville Road with a traffic stop to which three officers responded.

After speaking with the driver, Deaner said, the officers found probable cause to investigate for drugs and make an arrest. Smith resisted and assaulted two police officers, injuring one.

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Posted by ( sboyd ) on August 05, 2008 at 11:40 pm

I’m sorry to hear that an officer was injured during an drug arrest, also I’m glad he is doing well.  I would like to make a comment to damalama.  L. Garnell Stamps have nothing to do with the drug bust or the officer being injured, before you speak you need to find out what Mr. Stamps is really about and what he represents. When you do then, you will have the right to speak.

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Posted by ( damalama ) on August 05, 2008 at 2:50 pm

wow police can never do right.  they get a criminal off the streets and a officer is injuried in the process and no one says great job or anything, just a weird comment about the war on drugs that i really don’t understand.  however if the police had injuried this guy in anyway while taking him in, all the typical morons that aren’t in this forum surprisingly since there isn’t any criminal injury, that were commenting on the rose accident, and the amherst custody death would be ranting and raving about how police fight people and beat them up when they (the criminal do no wrong).  thanks lpd for getting another scum bag off the street, people want you to clean up the downtown area and as soon as you start doing it our police are labeled as racist or to much attention to one area, but then they come out in peace marches demanding violence stop and want police presences, and then what was said at first repeats, i know the police can’t say this but maybe feel it, but i will the downtown area, greenfield etc are full of idiots criminal harboring drain on society people, and i know where this happen was no were close to that area, but it’s the whole attitude towards the LPD in general from the downtown people is insanely ignorant, but you have people like g. stamps to thank for that, the the news and advance makes feel important whenever a black criminal is arrested.

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Posted by ( Oh Please ) on August 04, 2008 at 6:18 pm

So....."freedom" costs how much? When I read an article of local occurances that an arrest IS made and the bad guy loses, my perspective usually stays focused on the good done. I try very hard not to put all the rest of the worlds problems into that same baby buggy...tends to take the joy from whether the baby is pink or “BLUE”. If my serenity (FREEDOM) gets rageful at any mention of things I have no power over, FREEDOM IS’NT FREE AT ALL. My complaining about others failures is like peeing in the wind.

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Posted by ( Freedom ) on August 04, 2008 at 3:46 pm

..ok SPACEMAN,,lets try this,,the WAR on drugs has been going on since the end of ww2,,then it was the FRENCH conection,,then the MIFIA,,then the COLUMBIA CARTEL,,and now its the MEXICAN CARTEL,,the mex are really just an extention of the COLUMBIA,,we kick butt in columbia,then we invaded PAMNAMA ,,now we will have to INVADE MEXICO,,or,,fight them here in our own streets,,more and more we will have to fight them here,,the CARTEL has hidden in our sanuary cities and all major cities w/spainish speaking communities,, on the east coast that would be nyc/dc/atlanta/miami...estaments are 2.5 million army of warrior kids,,14-17 yrs of age,,because the CARTEL knows that all ICE will do is pack the minors in a plane fly them to the mex/american border and release,,they then after some r/r at cancoon they come back with meth/coke/herion/pot and the cycle repeats itself until they reach legal almost 18 ,,they leave to avoid prison time,,as they gain a foothold ,,then they go after the POLICE,,as of 1/08 600 police in mex have been tortured and some beheaded and left at court houses,gov build or just in the middle of the street ,,depending what message they r trin to send,,as of 1/08 6,000 drive -by killing or rat killings mainly inocent bystanders,,then they expand to KIDNAPPING ceo and rich people to extract ransom $$,,then they ###### little blonde blue eye kids to put in the porn films and sex trade cause they fetch 5-10,000 a kid,,we are already seeing that with the # of missing kids increasing and showing up in porn films and in some cases real bad porn where the horrfic crimes end with the murder also being taped,,and of course any kid will do ,,but the price is lower,then to make matters worse,,they gain ground due to apathy,,brought on by people who have had so many people effected by the illegal drugs ie,ruin lives and imprisonment of family members or killing a 22 yr old for buying papers at a quick-e who had a DIME BAG,,not enforcing legal / illegal immagration,,not building the fence,,wasting our tax $ in more prisons,,locking up our border patrol agents on the sole testimony of an illegal immagrant drug dealer( the congress is in the process of tring to pass legislature to override the federal court and free the agents and relock up the drug dealer)all this apathy and frustration and feeling of betrayal leads to a population of indeferance which feeds to the CARTEL war plans and of course there is a lot more,,and yes i speak english,,2 yrs latin,,2 yrs spainish,,studied russian/french/italian,,put that all together and add DESYLEXIA and u have me,,sory about that,,again ,the last america most wanted touched on a lot of what i have said,,visit their web-site for the atlanta drug cartel w/kidnaping etc,,and CLARE378 DRUGS ARE REAL BAD and you getta watch the legal one also,,

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Posted by ( Spaceman ) on August 04, 2008 at 9:58 am

Freedom - I don’t understand you.  Do you speak English?

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Posted by ( Clare378 ) on August 04, 2008 at 9:50 am

After reading Freedom’s comment, all I can say is - DRUGS ARE BAD.

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Posted by ( Freedom ) on August 04, 2008 at 12:02 am

yea ,,yea ,,yea ..kill us but dont stop it at the border or the long shoremen ports of la/maima/nyc,,the mifia family stills says bring it on,,the dealer on the street keeps gettin replaced,,and THEN be sure to give /our/them ports to DUBIA so we can get HERION from afgan and nuke bombs from iran,,to blow up nyc/wc/la/san deigo ..forget the border fence and illegal immagration reform and now w/nafta let the mexican drivers cross our borders and go anywhere w/out spekim english..stuff w/illegals w/drugs/mules//cause we already got the signs for them..and really bring it all in ..incl them little kids,,and steal our little kids for international sex market ..cause we paved the road w/all our esponial snigns..and now you got the killin of border mex/tex in ATLANTA GA,,and lock ours up over a dealers word,,yea good job bouys,,keep killin us at the quick-ie for rollin papers for the joint that the mex/ports/open border,,heck whatever,,and puttin us in jail then wonder why u get killed like in mexaco,,beheadin,,all that grovvey stuff,,got a problem w/this ,,talk to bauserman..he,s got the answer..AND AMERICIA MOST WANTED WILL VERIFY AND SHOW U ALL THIS !!GOD BLESS AMERICA,,

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