FROM STAFF REPORTS
SAVANNAH TEARE
MARBLE FALLS — Two people face multiple drug charges after police responded to a medical call Sept. 29 to an apartment on Mustang Drive to not only find a man unresponsive and apparently suffering from a drug overdose but also a quantity of prescription drugs not prescribed to either person.
It’s a problem that Marble Falls Police Sgt. Tom Dillard said officers are seeing more and more — possession of multiple types of prescription drugs.
“We’re finding with folks illegally possessing prescription drugs, they’ll have three or four different types,” Dillard said. In past years, he pointed out, when they arrested somebody with marijuana or another illicit drug, it was usually just one type. But officers are now finding a cornucopia of illegally possessed prescription drugs in these cases.
Police arrested Bryant James Brand, 24, on Oct. 29 on four counts of manufacture/delivery of a controlled substance stemming from the September call, but officers added a possession of marijuana charge after they allegedly found him in possession of that drug when they arrested him.
BRYANT BRAND
On Oct. 30, police arrested and charged Savannah Teare, 19, on four counts of manufacture/delivery of a controlled substance, also in regard to the September call.
According to arrest warrant affidavits for Brand, Marble Falls police officers responded to a unit at the Vistas Apartments, 1700 Mustang Drive, about 4 a.m. regarding an unresponsive male subject who was “cold to the touch.” When they arrived, the apartment unit’s resident took officers to the man, later identified as Brand, sitting in a chair and unresponsive.
A third person, later identified as Teare, was allegedly “running around” and “hysterical,” according to the report.
Officers learned the man allegedly had taken methamphetamine and marijuana and possibly methadone.
While at the apartment, officers noted the presence of several suspected drugs, Dillard said.
Marble Falls Area EMS arrived, treated Brand and Teare and then transported them to a hospital.
According to the affidavit, officers located a quantity of pills, two syringes, a rubber strap commonly used to “tie off” prior to intravenous drug use, a digital scale and other paraphernalia.
Because of the presence of the scale, various types of drugs and baggies, officers suspected the two also might have been dealing, according to the affidavits.
The drugs found at the apartment included methadone, alprazolam, clonezepam and methamphetamine. Three of the charges are state jail felony level, but because of the amount of methadone allegedly found, it’s a first-degree felony charge punishable by up to 99 years or life in prison.
Both were booked into the Burnet County Jail. Teare has since bonded out, but as of Oct. 31, Brand was still in custody.
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