A Weirsdale man was arrested on drug charges after being stopped with syringes of methamphetamine.
An officer stopped 46-year-old Robert Joseph Gibson as the passenger in a red Dodge pickup truck on Picciola Road around midnight on Thursday, Oct. 9, according to an arrest report from the Fruitland Park Police Department. The driver had not worn a seatbelt, and the decal on the trailer he was hauling had a large hole in the middle of it.
After speaking to the occupants, the officer checked their records. He learned the driver’s license was suspended back in May. Three of the suspensions were for violating an ignition interlock requirement, and one was for failing to complete a substance abuse treatment. He also had six prior convictions for driving with a suspended license, the report said.
A K-9 unit was then asked to come to the scene, and the K-9 alerted to the odor of narcotics. A subsequent search of the vehicle immediately revealed two empty syringes in a black sock that had been put in the driver’s door pocket. The sock was on top of everything else inside the pocket, appearing to have been recently put there, the report said…