Charles Scott Moore
SALINE CO.— An unemployed West Frankfort man, wanted on an outstanding arrest warrant, earned himself another felony charge after he was found with dope in Saline County.
According to police reports, on December 23, 2016, at approximately 2:20 p.m. Eldorado officer Jerod Gott was on routine patrol southbound on Beulah Street when he observed a blue pickup truck southbound on Scott Street.
Gott knew the owner of the vehicle to have had his driver’s license suspended.
As he watched the pickup he witnessed a man, wearing an orange sock hat, exit the vehicle on Scott Street and walk behind a house between Scott and Beulah streets.
Gott knew the man in the orange hat to be Charles Scott Moore, 27, of 1208 East St. Louis St., West Frankfort and was aware that he was wanted on four arrest warrants.
The officer got out of his police cruiser and began walking toward Moore, who looked at him and took off running eastbound, toward Scott Street.
“I yelled, ‘Charles STOP!’” Gott said. “He kept running and I yelled several times for him to stop.”
Moore ran toward Locust and Kerr streets, where the pickup truck was parked, ran around to the rear of a residence in the area and was last seen near a basement door to the residence.
“I told the person standing in the front porch to make Moore exit the house,” Gott said.
Fellow officer Clint Hooper arrived and took the west side of the residence as Gott took the east side.
As both officers moved into position, Moore suddenly appeared, as if he were being spat out of the house, on the front porch with no shoes, took off the orangs sock hat, threw it down and took off running in the direction of Public Street.
Officer Gott yelled once again for Moore to stop and at the intersection of Kerr and Public streets, he finally stopped and lay down.
As if he didn’t have enough problems as it was, when Gott searched Moore subsequent to his arrest, the officer recovered a small purple plastic container with a white dusting of methamphetamine inside.
Moore’s criminal history includes a conviction March 30, 2016 of Violation of an Order of Protection, for which he was sentenced to jail for 104 days, probation for 30 months and ordered to pay $5,712.82 in fines and fees, of which he still owes $3,637.82.
He also has an outstanding case from October 2016, in which he is charged with two counts of Felon Failure to Return from Furlough.
In addition to being taken into custody on his outstanding arrest warrants, Moore was charged with Unlawful Possession of Methamphetamine.
Cash bond in the case was set at $150.