Vehicle search results in drug charge

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Wednesday, July 18. 2012
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A Commerce man faces a felony drug charge after an officer who pulled him over for a traffic violation found a quantity of “white crystalline substance” during a search of the vehicle.

According to the arrest report, an officer was driving on South Elm Street when he noticed that the driver of a vehicle that passed him was not wearing a seat belt. He pulled the vehicle over near the former Shell station south of town.

The driver was Jason Ray Hill, 39, of 104 Ila Road, Commerce.

The report said Hill explained that he was driving a cousin’s vehicle, going to Ingles “to pick up some things.” When he was asked for his driver’s license, the report said Hill told the officer that he did not have it with him because “it is tied up in court.”

The officer ran Hill’s information and learned that his license had been suspended in June for failure to appear.

When the officer asked Hill to step out of the vehicle to be arrested, he noticed that a prescription pill container fell to the floorboard of the vehicle. When the officer asked permission to search the vehicle, Hill refused. However, the owner of the vehicle arrived and gave police permission to search the vehicle, after which the officer reported finding a “battery looking item” inside of which he found a white crystalline substance.

The officer charged Hill with violation of the Georgia Controlled Substances Act, driving with a suspended license and failure to wear a seat belt.

For a list of all the arrests and incidents reported by the Commerce Police Department, see the print edition of The Commerce News.
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#1 Not in your Jeep?? on 07/19/12 at 09:32 AM [Reply]
Damn Jason, you just can't stay out of trouble!! Maybe you'll get off that garbage in the slammer!
#1.1 theres more drugs in prisons on 07/24/12 at 12:39 AM [Reply]
then out of them, and so before your mind overheats, es it gets in mostly though the EMPLOYEES...... drugs are like roaches in pot of rice spread across dark field at night, you can shine a light here and there but the roaches just move around not stop being roaches
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