Police Division

June 22, 2021 Press Release

On June 21, 2021 at 10:27, Norfolk Police were called to a parking lot in the 900 block of Omaha Avenue to check on a person who was passed out in a parked car.  When the officers approached the vehicle, the officer observed a glass pipe in the vehicle and the passed out man in the driver’s seat.  The officer woke the passed out man and he was identified as Howard J. Parson Jr., 33, of Norfolk.  A second responding officer noticed medication pills falling Parson’s pant pocket.  The officer recovered the pills and they were identified as hydrocodone.  Parson did not have a prescription for the controlled medication.  He was then taken into custody.  In a subsequent search of the Parson and the vehicle, officers recovered a total of 18 hydrocodone pills, over four ounces of methamphetamine, over one ounce of marijuana and various drug paraphernalia items.  Parson was arrested for two counts of possession of a controlled substance, and possession of marijuana – over one ounce.  He was housed in the Norfolk City Jail and later transferred to the Madison County jail.