GENEVA — It’s hard to believe, but tennis shoes weren’t designed originally with a syringe compartment.
Jonathan Rea, 22, and Jordan Rea, 19, both of Geneva, learned this fact the hard way Monday when police officers found syringes, and suspected heroin residue in their car and in their shoes after pulling the men over for a license-plate violation, Geneva police reports show.
Officer Michael Palinkas observed the two men travel down Chestnut Street, stop, accelerate rapidly and make several lane changes on Route 20. Palinkas initiated the traffic stop and saw a small white object being thrown from the driver’s window, the officer said in his report.
Jordan Rea, who was drivingl, didn’t have his driver’s license and denied having thrown anything out the car window, Palinkas said.
The officer found a small white piece of paper on the ground, which turned out to be a receipt for syringes from a Madison drugstore, Palinkas said in his report.
The brothers denied having any narcotics in the vehicle.
The men were patted down, and officers found a syringe in Jordan’s left shoe and wax paper.
Officers searched the vehicle and found a small plastic bag with suspected heroin residue under the front passenger floor mat, more wax paper with suspected heroin residue, one used syringe, one spoon with suspected heroin residue, four more spoons and a package of syringes still containing seven syringes, police reports show. Palinkas said the three syringes found in the car and in Jonathan and Jordan’s shoes matched the seven other unused syringes in the package.
Both men appeared Tuesday in Western County Court on charges of felony possession of heroin and possession of criminal tools, which in this case is any object used in committing a crime.
Jordan also was cited for driving without a front license plate, court records show.
Jonathan also was charged with driving under suspension with no operator’s license and possession of drug paraphernalia on March 17. In January, Jonathan was cited by the Ashtabula County Sheriff’s Department for felony heroin possession. Both cases are still open.
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