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Chewy the meth raccoon busted in Ohio traffic stop

Rob Beschizza
May 07, 2025
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When an Ohio police officer pulled over a vehicle registered to someone with an active warrant, he probably thought the odds were high he'd find drugs. Officer Austin Branham surely did not expect to find a raccoon in the driver's seat holding a meth pipe.

The "strange encounter," as the department put it, was in Springfield Township on Monday at about 7…

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