Mills says the time needed for the police command transition to proceed will depend to a large extent on advertising to fill the position and whether there are applications from within the department to succeed Watts. The police chief says he cannot project when his successor will be chosen or whether that successor will come from within the department or elsewhere. No license plate triggers drug bust No license plate on a Nissan Maxima travelling west on the interstate triggered a heroin, cocaine and marijuana arrest of a man and wife, reports Sgt. Billy Sides of the Permian Basin Drug Task Force. Sides says he and Ward County Sheriff's Deputy Juan Rodriguez made the bizarre arrest on Sunday, Jan. 4, at Interstate 20's mile marker 76 in western Ward County.
Sides says the officers pulled the automobile over.
Asked about the lack of a license plate, the driver told the officers the plate was in the trunk. They were right. The plate was in the trunk next to the heroin, cocaine and marijuana. They are being held in the Ward County Jail on charges of possession and distribution of illicit drugs. Guy Andrews of Southwestern Bell says March 18 is the scheduled date when telephone subscribers in the two towns, only about 15 miles apart, can start calling each other without a long distance service charge.