ST GEORGE – The Washington County Drug Task Force arrested a Brookside man on charges of drug distribution Thursday afternoon.
Dustin Wolfgang Greenwalt has been the subject of a task force investigation since spring.
“The Task Force utilized a confidential informant to purchase heroin, on two separate occasions, from Greenwalt,” task force Capt. Kyle Whitehead said. “The confidential informant was sold heroin by Mr. Greenwalt. The transaction occurred both times within 1,000 feet of an LDS church, which means it was within a drug free zone.”
After the buys in the spring, the task force proceeded to finish putting the case together and arrested Greenwalt Thursday, booking him into Washington County’s Purgatory Correctional Facility.
He is being charged with two counts of drug distribution enhanced from a second degree felony to a first degree felony, due to the offense occurring in a drug free zone.
According to the county’s booking information, Greenwalt’s bail has been set at $40,000.
Persons arrested or charged are presumed innocent until found guilty in a court of law or as otherwise decided by a trier-of-fact.
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Everywhere in Utah is within 1000 feet of a church…. Just saying.
PRAISE THE LORD!!!
The resident to church ratio in Utah is probably about the same as the resident to strip club / bar ratio in Las Vegas. Which would you rather have? Just saying.
The headline should be “Drug task force wastes more time and money fighting unwinnable war on drugs.”
Haha, very true, Michelle!
Or some other place that is labeled a drug free zone.
Get a clue you drug people! Drugs are the pits!
Wait……In this country, and state it is illegal to possess, use, buy, distribute this and many other drugs. Wouldn’t that make the entire state a drug free zone according to the law?
Why is possession of drugs more bad 1000′ from a church? It’s less harmful to society if he was 1001′ from a church? Makes no sense. The dude needs rehab, not prison.
If he served a strong mission somewhere, will he receive a lighter sentence?
I agree with you about the silly “drug free zone.” However, this guy is a dealer, he needs prison…rehab if he wants to while he’s locked up.
Thank goodness there is that many church’s or this area would be over taken by dead beats
Instead, church people are just closet drinkers and prescription pill poppers, right?
Ding! Cuckoo, cuckoo.
Michelle that’s to keep you from sticking a needle in you arm. Hope it’s working.
Is pornography also illegal within 1,000 feet of mormon churches? If so, what about all those church guys looking at it in their homes, near the churches?
Did anyone watch the show on National Geographic called “Drugs Inc” in which one episode about the drug epidemic in Salt Lake City? One of the drug dealers was in the Elders Quorum and had the pages of his Book Of Mormon cut out so he could hide his drugs in it. They did the interview inside the church and he had his drugs with him inside the book. He says he has six other members of his ward doing the selling. He said that he does give tithing with the money he makes……..So does that make it okay or something? Being a Mormon or any other religion does not make someone a good person.
There is no war on drugs