Michigan man found slumped over in his truck at old dump

DUFF, TN (WLAF) – Campbell County Sheriff’s Deputy Jacob Fox went to the old dump on Hwy 90 on Christmas Eve around 9:30pm to conduct a welfare check on a person who was slumped over in their pick-up truck. When the deputy arrived, he saw a man identified as Richard Edward Goeckel in the driver’s seat of 2009 red GMC Sierra, and he appeared to be asleep.

Deputy Fox approached the pick-up, and Goeckel opened the door when a small glass pipe with a burnt end fell out of the cab. Deputy James McCall placed Goeckel into the back of his patrol car. McCall and Fox searched the GMC pick-up truck and found a small baggie in the center console containing a brown rock like substance believed to be Heroin and a small bag of white powdered substance thought to be Cocaine inside a small blue zippered bag which also contained two syringes, according to a report from the sheriff’s office.

Other items found in the center console were a small sandwich container with multiple glass pipes along with a small scale. In the floorboard of the truck, McCall found a small gray bottle containing a white rock like substance believed to be cocaine and a large baggie of a white rock like substance in a blue zippered bag inside of a protective case for eyeglasses. Inside of this case was also a large bag of what Goeckel allegedly admitted was baking soda used to create the rock like substance.

Goeckel, 58, 7011 Syracuse Street, Taylor, Michigan, was charged with two counts of the manufacture, delivery and sell of a controlled substance and felony possession of drug paraphernalia. (WLAF NEWS PUBLISHED – 12/31/2021-6AM)