A sheriff wants to seize a customized D.A.R.E. motorcycle, saying the man who won it in a raffle rode the bike emblazoned with anti-drug messages to make a drug deal.

‘’We tried to advertise the D.A.R.E. program and ‘Say no,’ ‘’ said Ross County Sheriff Ron Nichols. ‘’Unfortunately, this gentleman didn’t take heed to what it said on the side of the bike.'’

Nichols said Pearl Blazer, 54, of Frankfort won the $50,000 Harley-Davidson in a sheriff’s office raffle in 1999 to raise money for the office’s Drug Abuse Resistance Education program.

Blazer was indicted Feb. 22 and charged with one count of drug trafficking. He is accused of selling an ounce of marijuana to an undercover deputy on July 9.

Nichols said he will to try to seize the bike, a procedure common in drug cases, after Blazer’s criminal case is resolved.