Sheriff’s deputies said they made two arrests for pot possession Monday, including one driver who allegedly ran a stop sign and another who said he forgot that there was marijuana and a glass pipe inside a bag with a printer he was returning to Wal-Mart.
According to an arrest affidavit, Zachary Richard Jones, 21, of Sheephead Dr. was stopped at Spring Hill Dr and Ashland when he ran a stop sign. A deputy said he noted an odor of marijuana, and Jones allegedly “produced from underneath the front of his grey sweatshirt, a plastic baggie which contained a large amount of a green leafy substance that field tested positive for marijuana.” Jones reportedly admitting paying $100 to buy the pot, which deputies said exceeded 20 grams.
And deputies investigating a retail theft at the Cortez Blvd. Wal-Mart said they were called to the customer service office after a store employee said they found a small amount of marijuana and a glass pipe in a bag with a printer that a customer was returning. The suspect was identified as 40-year old David Voorheis Hubbard II of Lake in the Woods Dr. in Spring Hill. Hubbard was charged with misdemeanor pot possession and possession of drug paraphernalia. An arrest affidavit noted that a deputy asked Hubbard “if he forgot that these items were in the bag as he stated while smirking ’Yea’.”