Dogs inspect vehicles
The scanners were provided to the DOT-organized event by the
National Guard, under a federal law that allows it to participate in
civilian anti-drug efforts.
DOT spokeswoman Dena M. Gray-Fisher said the selected drivers
were taken into a building at the station, where they presented
their licenses and logbooks. Those items were then passed under
the ion scanner's "sniffer," a device that looks like a hand-held
vacuum.
The data were then fed into the main scanning machine.
Forty-six of the 623 drivers tested positive for traces of drugs,
Gray-Fisher said. Police and drug dogs then inspected their
vehicles. Six drivers were eventually arrested for possessing small
quantities of cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana and LSD, she
said.
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