HURRICANE – Eric Johnson, of Toquerville, and Natalie Granger, of Hurricane, were arrested late Tuesday night after an employee of a gas station where the two had been, found syringes in the bathroom where they had spent a “substantial amount of time.”
According to a probable cause statement filed by Hurricane City Police Officer Kacen Gubler, Gubler responded to a report from a local gas station employee, who said that Johnson and Granger had been in the store, had went into the bathroom for a long time, and left with red needle marks in their arms.
Gubler went looking for Johnson and Granger based off of the description of the gas station attendant, and he found them as they were walking in front of Hurricane High School.
“I observed two syringes in Eric’s left hand,” Gubler wrote in the probable cause statement. “I told Eric to drop the syringes.”
The syringes, which contained a brown tinted liquid inside of them, were collected as evidence. The syringes were tested and came back positive for heroin.
Johnson also had three candy bars in his other hand that he claimed to have paid for at the gas station.
According to the probable cause statement, Johnson told Gubler that he may have dropped one of his syringes at the gas station and that he uses the syringes to take his prescription medication.
Gubler also located a protective order served against Granger, prohibiting her from having contact with Johnson.
Granger admitted that she and Johnson had gone into the gas station bathroom and while in the bathroom, she performed sexual acts on Johnson while he used drugs, the probable cause statement said. Gubler searched Granger and asked her if she had any drugs or syringes on her; she said she did not.
Johnson then admitted that he and Granger both went into the bathroom, used heroin and engaged in sexual acts, according to the probable cause statement.
Granger also told Gubler that the candy bars in Johnson’s hand were stolen.
Both were arrested and transported to the Washington County Purgatory Correctional Facility. At the facility a female corrections officer performed a search of Granger and located a syringe with heroin in it in Granger’s vaginal region.
Granger was charged with drug possession, a second-degree felony; jail-inmate possession of contraband; possession of paraphernalia, a class A misdemeanor; and protective order violation, a class A misdemeanor.
On Wednesday, the Washington County Attorney’s Office filed charges on all counts except jail-inmate possession of contraband. According to Washington County Sheriff’s bookings, Granger’s bail stands at $13,886 and she is still in custody as this report is published.
Johnson was charged with drug possession, a second-degree felony; possession of drug paraphernalia, a class A misdemeanor; and retail theft, a class B misdemeanor. At the time of this report, according to the Washington County booking information, Johnson has been released on $12,526 bond.
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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Probably still a cleaner place to have sex than some of the hotels around here.
A serious temporary lapse in judgement!
What two fine, law abiding, tax paying citizens.
Haha! Oh, I needed that laugh today. Thank you.
They snatched a syringe out of her privates? Now that’s hard core!
You’d probably need a penicillin shot after using that needle.
Given the reported common use of heroin in Washington County high schools ,
the story of these 2 should be shared as a cautionary tale of how bad / stupid you can get when getting high .
It could be a good deterrent !
After just reading the headline, I thought for sure this story was about Bobber and Koolaid! My bad!!
Or was it about your mom and dad?
I’m a Bigot and hate is my game
I pray they are able to find the help they need and deserve. Addiction is a serious disease that robs so many of a beautiful life. There is absolutely nothing funny about this. I hope your loved ones never have to fight this demon.
Am I reading a checkout tabloid? How much information do we really need to know?
I hope they washed their hands before leaving the bathroom.
I for one, am relieved to finally read about an incident in hurricane not involving the sexual molestation of domestic animals, as rare as it might be.
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I expect these two in the bishop’s office first thing Sunday!
Bobber just I caught YOU with my live stock, doesn’t mean the rest of the fine folks like that kind of thing.
Was the sexual act the syringe entering her vagina? Sounds like they were off to make a delivery to the high school, good Mormon kids love the horse.
Gas station bathroom nookie? This guy is quite the Casanova.
That is soooooooooo freakin gross
These facts are NOT TRUE. If I was going to have sex with MY HUSBAND it would NOT be in a public bathroom thanks for twisting the facts!
What a laugh! You picked the most benign part of the story to deny.
Report this info to your bishop. Nothing we can do here…