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Rectum, Hell — It Damn Near Killed ’im!

A North Carolina state trooper spotted a man wanted in Georgia on a murder charge. When the trooper and a backup unit got the man pulled over, the suspect rolled up his windows and locked his door; the troopers forced the door open and had to subdue Michael Ward with a Taser. Ward allegedly gave a false name during his booking, and was strip-searched, and no contraband was found. When Ward complained of heart problems and said he couldn’t walk, he was taken to a hospital. He was released back to custody after a checkup. Through all of this, no one found the full-sized .38-caliber revolver that Ward had hidden “in a body cavity,” as WECT-TV delicately put it. The gun was discovered the next day during a cell check; Ward was returned to the hospital for another checkup to ensure the gun didn’t do any damage. The gun, investigators say, was not loaded, but was “in operational condition.” (RC/WECT Wilmington) ...The six empty tubes of KY Jelly in his car should have been a clue.
Author’s Note: This story (and the preceding, “Tempest”) are in my blog, thanks to a mind-boggling photo: https://thisistrue.com/hiding_places/
Original Publication Date: 15 January 2012
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.

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