A Utah tourist may have taken the phrase High Desert a little too literally according to police reports.
Coulsen Mountainlion of Bridgeport, Utah was stopped over Friday afternoon in the Rainbow casino by police after being alerted that two men were behaving strangely by casino security Following a search of the man and his vehicle he was arrested for almost every schedule of illegal drug known to be abused.
Now in the Elko County Jail on a combined $14,510 bail, Mountainlion was twice charged on Possession of a scheduled I-IV controlled substances.
Controlled substances are drugs that are strictly regulated to reduce the risk of abuse and illegal distribution. To determine the level of restriction placed on a particular controlled substance, five different categories (or “Schedules”) are used. A controlled substance will belong to Schedule I, II, III, IV, or V, with Schedule V being the least restricted.
Schedule I drugs are the most restricted controlled substances. In fact, prescriptions cannot be written for these drugs, and they are not even seen in pharmacies. Schedule II, III, IV, and V controlled substances may be prescribed by a health care provider and dispensed from pharmacies.
Examples of specific drugs found within each Schedule include:
• Schedule I — heroin, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), marijuana
• Schedule II — amphetamine and dextroamphetamine (Adderall®), cocaine, codeine
• Schedule III — acetaminophen with codeine, anabolic steroids (Androderm®, Testim®), buprenorphine and naloxone (Suboxone®)
• Schedule IV — alprazolam (Xanax®), clonazepam (Klonopin®), diazepam (Valium®)
The only scheduled drugs Mountainlion did not have were
• Schedule V — acetaminophen with codeine, Phenergan® with codeine, Robitussin® AC with codeine.
In addition to the major drug charges Mountainlion was charged with possession of a less than an ounce of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and driving while intoxicated.
