{"id":351518,"date":"2026-06-26T14:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T14:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/351518\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T14:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T14:59:08","slug":"el-paso-county-k9-assists-deputies-with-narcotics-arrest-at-traffic-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/351518\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso County K9 assists deputies with narcotics arrest at traffic stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SECURITY-WIDEFIELD, Colo. (KKTV) &#8211; With the assistance of a K9 unit, El Paso County deputies arrested a suspect who had narcotics in his vehicle during a traffic stop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">El Paso County deputies said on June 16, at about 9:30 a.m., they were patrolling the area of Almont Avenue in the Security-Widefield area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Deputies said while in the area, they found a man known to them, 53-year-old Craig Nothaus, who entered a vehicle and began driving away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A recent contact with Nothaus showed deputies he was driving without a valid driver\u2019s license, deputies said. With this information, deputies initiated a traffic stop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">During the stop, deputies said they learned Nothaus was out on bond stemming from a May 6 incident, for which he was arrested for possession of 24 grams of methamphetamine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Deputies said K9 Dex was requested to the scene to conduct an open-air sniff of the vehicle. During the open-air sniff, the K9 alerted his handler that there were narcotics in the presence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Deputies searched the vehicle and located about 6.4 grams of methamphetamine, deputies said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Nothaus was arrested and booked into the El Paso County Jail on charges of unlawful possession of a controlled substance and driving under restraint, deputies said. He was released on a $1,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KKTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SECURITY-WIDEFIELD, Colo. (KKTV) &#8211; With the assistance of a K9 unit, El Paso County deputies arrested a suspect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-351518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}