SPOKANE, Wash – Spokane Police say a man who ran over several pedestrians and slammed into the Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery Friday night was also found with drugs.
Friday night, police responded to calls from witnesses, saying a minivan slammed into the crisis nursery building on East Sprague.
When officers arrived, they found the vehicle resting against the side of the building and two people with injuries.
They also found two men laying in the road with injuries.
What they didn’t find was the owner of the vehicle.
Officers spoke to a woman at the scene who said she was a passenger in that vehicle. She said she only knew the driver as “Sam.” Police asked her to call Sam and he said he was at 2nd and Arthur.
Officers found the man in that area a short time later.
He told police he was on his way to meet his girlfriend and denied being in an accident.
“I noticed Samual had broken glass all over his back and in his hair,” the officer wrote in the statement of facts. “This is consistent with someone being involved in a car accident and very unusual for someone to have that was just out for a walk.”
Officers then put Samual Clopton in handcuffs and told him he was under arrest for hit and run.
In the statement of facts, officers said they found pills in Clopton’s pocket that he told them were Vicodin. Officers also found a plastic bag with a white crystal substance and multi-colored pills that officers identified as methamphetamine and fentanyl.
Clopton’s passenger told police the two smoked meth that afternoon.
One of the men who was hit was sitting at the bus stop at the time. He remembered headlights swerving towards him and didn’t remember anything else until he woke up in the emergency room.
The other man said he was walking back from church when he was hit. He suffered cuts to his head and face and pain in his knee and wrist.
Clopton was booked into the Spokane County Jail on charges of hit and run, DWI and possession of a controlled substance.
He faces a judge Monday afternoon.
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