Habersham man faces drug charges

Police confiscated seven syringes, two of which were reportedly loaded with liquefied oxycodone and 198 30-miligram oxycodone pills, along with $585 in cash.

Details of the investigation leading up to the arrest were not available, but two detectives from the Commerce Police Department asked a patrol officer on duty to pull over a vehicle that had turned onto Hospital Road. The responding officer made the stop based on a detective’s statement that the driver had crossed the double yellow line in the center of the road as if he intended to pass a school bus.

Aware that Martin was a suspect in drug deals, the officer said he patted Martin down, finding nothing, and got Martin’s consent to search the vehicle. In the center console, the officer noted an open Coca Cola can and a prescription for Soma (carisprodal) that though filled just two days earlier was “almost half empty.”

Under the plastic cover of the gear shift, the officer said he found two pill bottles, one with Martin’s name and the other with the information scratched out, and a plastic bag with five pills, which the officer indicated he suspected were packaged for sale, and the hypodermic needles. The two pill containers held the oxycodone tablets.

The officer found the cash in a red bank bag on the front passenger-side seat, the incident report said. It also indicated that there was a blue residue — believed to be oxycodone — on the Coca Cola can found in the console.