What guests left in Rock Hill motel room leads to heroin trafficking arrest

Drug paraphernalia left in a Rock Hill motel room after guests checked out led to a man being charged with felony heroin trafficking.

Kenneth Michael Cooper, 29, of Edgemoor, is jailed under a $35,000 bond after police found more than seven grams of heroin, police and jail records show.

Rock Hill Police Department officers were called to a Cherry Road motel Saturday afternoon after the drug parpahernalia was “left by occupants who already checked out,” a police report states.

Officers conducted a traffic stop afterward and found the heroin in a backpack.

This story was originally published January 29, 2018 at 1:05 PM with the headline "What guests left in Rock Hill motel room leads to heroin trafficking arrest."