K-9 sniffs out drugs in trailer after driver said he 'heard voices'

STATESVILLE, N.C. — A truck driver was parked in a Statesville Lowe’s parking lot when he told a security guard he heard voices in his trailer.

The guard contacted authorities and a K-9 searched the trailer behind Richard Dean Jr.’s truck.

(Dean)

Inside the trailer, there was heroin, meth and drug paraphernalia, police said.

Dean, who is not a Lowe’s employee, was arrested on drug charges.

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