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Police in Cranston, Rhode Island, arrested a city councilman this week and charged him with drug possession after an officer found him asleep in his car with a crack pipe and a lighter in his hand.
The officer’s bodycam captured the incident with Matthew Reilly on May 15. Reilly can be seen with his mouth open and his head back as the officer approaches.
“I can’t really let you go. You were literally choking in your sleep. Somebody flagged me down,” the officer tells Reilly.
Reilly responded, “I have sleep apnea, I’m sorry.”
But the officer told Reilly he saw the crack pipe and lighter in his hand. Reilly admitted he’d struggled with addiction in the past and recently relapsed.
The body camera video runs for nearly an hour as EMTs check out Reilly and other officers arrive to test the substances found in the vehicle. The white, rock-like substance tested positive for cocaine and fentanyl.