Last night's routine probation check took a turn for the narcotic in Livermore when a 62-year-old man from Tracy was busted with a hefty amount of meth and a side of brass knuckles. Just after 10:30 p.m. at a small gas station on Vasco Road, Livermore Police crossed paths with Michael Moore, a man with a history tethered by the conditions of searchable probation out of Alameda County.
According to the Livermore Police Department's Facebook page, the encounter escalated when Moore, after being spoken to by the police, was subject to a search that his probation terms allowed. Sniffing out trouble was K9 Nitro, who alerted officers to the concealed narcotics in Moore's vehicle, practically with his nose in the wind.
The four-legged enforcer's keen senses led to the discovery of two ounces of methamphetamine tucked away just out of plain sight. But that wasn't all Moore harbored as nearly $1,000 in cash surfaced along with something else that packs a punch—brass knuckles.
Moore's evening ended with handcuffs instead of cold steel as he faced charges for possession of methamphetamine with intent to sell it, brass knuckles possession, and for the probation violation that initially drew the police to his car's window.
