Macon driver swore ‘on God’ he had nothing illegal. Then a cop saw something in his mouth
A Bibb County sheriff’s deputy on patrol in the west side of Macon’s Unionville neighborhood the afternoon of Oct. 10 spotted a black 2014 Lincoln MKS stopped in the middle of Peter Street. One of the car’s doors was open. The deputy, according to a report of the episode, was in the area “in reference to drug activity.” Someone inside the car noticed the deputy and shut the door. The car began cruising away. The deputy stopped it at Gross Avenue, a block or so north of Mercer University Drive. The driver, a 65-year-old man, said he had stopped to pick up a woman. The deputy informed him that he “could not be parked in the road and asked for his ID,” the report noted. At that point, the man was said to appear “real nervous … and his hands were twitching” and avoiding eye contact with the deputy. The man was asked to step out of the car where he was patted down and asked if there were any drugs or weapons in the car. The man said there weren’t. He was adamant. “He advised me that there was nothing in the car or on him and that he swore on God and everything else that he did not have anything,” the report said. But the man then added something: He mentioned having just bought “a 10 rock” — a $10 bit of crack cocaine — and eaten it. “I could see a bag of powder in (the man’s) mouth,” the deputy’s report said. He then tried to swallow the bag, which the write-up said the deputy made him spit out. The man was jailed on charges of driving with a suspended license and drug possession.
Dispatches: On Oct. 9, a man whose 94-year-old mother lives on Nisbet Drive in west Macon reported that someone had stolen 30 of her porcelain dolls worth a total of $3,000. . . . A 20-year-old Macon woman called the cops Oct. 17 to report a theft by deception. She said that in September she had made a deal with a woman on Facebook, sending the woman $190 to make her a wig. The wig maker, according to a sheriff’s report, has since told the buyer repeatedly that the wig is in the mail. The buyer said she never received it and the maker has since blocked her on Facebook. . . . A Bowden Street woman told a sheriff’s deputy on Oct. 20 that someone stole her pet cat, Rascal. The woman, 85, said she had returned home to find a note from another woman that said, for reasons unknown, she was taking Rascal with her. Rascal’s owner wasn’t sure where the other woman lives. Rascal was described as an 8-year-old feline, a sheriff’s report said, “orange and white and appears to have a mustache.”