A Redding man learned the hard way that there’s a right time and place to take a nap. At 1:20PM Sunday afternoon 35-year-old Dustin Dante Dalessio was asleep at the wheel while stopped at a stoplight at the Interstate 5 offramp to South Bonnyview Road. CHP Officers who arrived and tried to wake up Dalessio say they could see bags of drugs in his lap. After waking him and moving him and his car out of the roadway, officers searched and reported finding more than a Pound of Methamphetamine, over 3 Ounces of Fentanyl and about $900. Dalessio is on felony probation for transportation of drugs for sale. A search of his home on Riverland Drive reportedly turned up more evidence of drug sales. Dalessio was booked into jail, where he remains with bail set at $100,000.
– Steve Gibson