I'm a cop and this guy I pulled over was on meth and wanted my gun

So at the time of this incident, I was working as a patrolman for a small town and have been a police officer for 2 and a half years.<br><br>So I'm sitting on a crossroads in my squad car doing paperwork and this is around 1:15 am.<br>A truck passed me going around 30 mph and I notice that his tailgate is down and it looked like there was a trash bag in the back that might fall out. So I figure I'll pull him over.<br>So I pull him over and my dash cam shows that he speeds up and then slams on his brakes and skids to a stop when he sees my lights turn on.<br><br>It takes him a minute to roll down his window and while I'm waiting, a passenger jumps out of the passenger side and runs into the nearby woods.<br>I yelled at the driver "even if you didn't do anything wrong now you're getting a ticket you just took off on me".<br>So I call for backup and go to the driver side window and write him a ticket for driving with a suspended license and speeding.<br>When I go to the back of the car to write in my squad, the driver gets out and walks toward me.<br>I yell at him "get back in your car now".<br>He says "no I'm going to go get my buddies who ran off".<br>I again ordered him to get in his vehicle and if I told him again, I would arrest him. He gets back in his truck.<br>So he gets back in his truck and he gets back out and walks towards me and this time I arrest him for disorderly conduct.<br>Before I put him in the back of my squad car he tells me he needs to let his dogs out.<br>When I let his dogs out, it was only one dog and it was a pitbull and it looked like it hadn't eaten in weeks.<br>The dog jumps out of the back of the truck and starts running around toward the woods.<br>So I put the driver in the back of my squad car and moved his truck to a wider part of the road because I didn't want the dog getting hit.<br>While moving his truck I noticed the dogs collar and leash were in the back of the truck so I grabbed that and went to the back of my squad to call out to the dog.<br>When I called out to the dog, the driver started screaming at me "I told you there wasn't a dog in the truck! Shut up!".<br>So I figured this guy was off his hinges and told him to settle down.<br>I got out of my squad and walked to the back of the truck and opened the tailgate and there was a pitbull mix in the back, extremely emaciated, dog food spilled all over the back of the truck and her water bowl was empty.<br>I called animal control for the dog and the driver kept telling me again "I told you there wasn't a dog in the car!".<br>I told him "dude there is a dog right in the back of your truck".<br>He just kept arguing with me about it.<br>I told him I was going to walk the dog down the road to get it some grass to eat because it look absolutely starved.<br>He kept telling me again "don't let that dog out of my truck!".<br>So I let the dog out and I immediately smelled death.<br>The dog's collar was so tight on her neck that it was cutting into the skin and she had wounds on her neck from the collar.<br>So I loosened the collar.<br>I walked the dog down the road and she had diarrhea which smelled absolutely disgusting.<br>At that point, I called EMS for the driver because the dog's condition looked like neglect for several months.<br>So the driver asked to use the restroom and I told him he couldn't because he was under arrest at that point.<br>So I put him in the back of my squad car and he started kicking and screaming, kicking the windows and kicking the door open.<br>I looked at my dash cam and it just looks like the back of my car is shaking.<br>I told him to stop and he didn't so I went to the back of my car and sprayed him in the face with pepper spray.<br>He stopped and I closed the door and the dog was still loose down the road eating grass.<br>A few minutes later, the dog starts growling and showing her teeth and I notice cops behind me with spotlights down the road and the dog is barking and growling at them.<br>So I yell at him "turn off your lights, you're going to make the dog attack you".<br>The cop behind me comes out with his gun drawn and I tell him "no no no I don't think the dog is feral I think she's just starving and scared".<br>The cop says "no we're not going to get attacked by that dog".<br>I say "I'll go get her" and he says it's fine and he's not trying to get bit by a stray dog.<br>I go down the road and the dog is still growling at me and I called her over and she comes over to me and wags her tail.<br>I pet her and she lets me put the leash on her and I walk her back to my car.<br>I ask the driver "what is this dog's name?" and he tells me "I don't know" and I say "you don't know your dog's name?" and he says "I told you that dog wasn't mine".<br>I told him "well the dog is in the back of your truck, so obviously the dog is yours".<br>He kept arguing with me that the dog wasn't his.<br>I told him "I don't care if the dog is yours or not, she's absolutely starving and has wounds on her neck, so I'm taking you to jail".<br>He said "I don't do drugs I've been up for 2 days on Red Bull though".<br>I knew he was doing something harder than that.<br>A few minutes later, EMS shows up and I tell them that the driver is irate and the dog is absolutely in horrible shape and I don't think the driver cares about the dog's condition.<br>So the EMS workers come up to me and I give them a pair of handcuff keys in case the driver wants to fight them.<br>They go in the back of my car and the driver is yelling at them and kicking and punching the windows so they restrain him with straps to the chair and give him a sedative.<br>At that point, I call for transport to my jail and they take the driver away.<br>The next morning, I get a call that the driver had 3 pipes of meth in his jacket and was positive for meth and amphetamines during his emergency room screening.<br>So I show up to court a few weeks later and the driver is in court and I show pictures of the dog.<br>One picture I took of the dog was of her collar and it was so tight that it was embedded in her neck.<br>The judge looks at the photo of the collar and it looked like it was a tattoo on the dog's neck.<br>The judge's expression was in shock and horror and he almost looked like he was about to faint.<br>The driver started arguing with me "that wasn't my dog!".<br>The judge told him "you're going to jail for a long time".<br>The driver got 4th-degree animal abuse which is a felony and he had 5th-degree possession of meth which is also a felony.<br>He got 2 years in jail for both charges.<br>The dog was absolutely sweet and the animal control officer took the dog in and fostered it and took it to the vet and said she was going to adopt it.<br><br>TL;DR: I made a traffic stop and a guy was on meth and had a starving dog in the back of his truck and he denied the dog was his.