On September 8, 2025, Patrolman Matt Charlock conducted a stationary radar operation and observed a silver sedan speeding at approximately 41 mph in a 30 mph zone on South Main Street in Crossville. He initiated a traffic stop at the intersection with Miller Avenue and identified the driver as Devin Stokes, who exited the vehicle as requested.

While seeking consent to search Stokes and the vehicle, Sgt. Mangas reported that the front right passenger, Brandi Stokes, admitted to having syringes inside, providing probable cause for a search; Stokes verbally consented to both. A pat-down of Devin Stokes revealed a folded piece of tin foil in his hoodie pocket containing a white powdery substance believed to be heroin, leading to his detention in handcuffs. He denied any other illegal items in the vehicle. Ptl. Price assisted and, during a search of Brandi Stokes, found a similar tin foil packet with suspected heroin in her front right pocket.

A subsequent probable cause search of the vehicle uncovered, in a black bag belonging to Devin Stokes, multiple straws, gutted pens, and burnt tin foil pieces with narcotic residue, as well as a small silver tin can holding a medicine bottle with a Ziploc baggie containing a white crystalline substance believed to be methamphetamine. On the passenger side, Sgt. Mangas located a grocery bag with multiple syringes (one with residue), a makeshift tourniquet, and an empty Ziploc baggie, while Charlock found a spoon with white powdery residue believed to be heroin in Brandi Stokes’s purse.

All narcotics and paraphernalia were secured in a lockbox in the patrol vehicle, and both suspects were arrested and transported to the Cumberland County Justice Center for booking, with the vehicle released to Devin Stokes’s girlfriend. Warrants were obtained, charging Devin Stokes with simple possession of heroin, simple possession of methamphetamine, and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia, and Brandi Stokes with simple possession of heroin and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia.

The seized items were bagged, labeled, and submitted as evidence at the Crossville Police Department for transport to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation for lab testing.