Crime & Safety
Drunk Euclid Man Passes Police at 110 MPH, Arrested for Cocaine Trafficking
Jeffrey Raleigh told police he did not see the cruiser and had no idea how the cocaine got into his pocket.
Mentor Police arrested a Euclid man early Friday morning for drunk driving and cocaine trafficking.
An officer was driving eastbound on Route 2, near Route 615, around 2:20 a.m. when he saw a car pass him at about 110 miles per hour. Jeffrey Raleigh, 50, stopped for the officer and had several individual bags of cocaine on him, according to the Mentor Police Department's Facebook page.
Raleigh told police he did not know how the drugs got in his pocket and that he did not see the police cruiser.
Raleigh had a blood alcohol level twice the legal limit, according to police.
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