Inside Police Reports: Not Clicking It Ends With Drug Arrest

“Click it or Ticket,” the ad campaign aimed at increasing seat-belt use, has a different meaning for a couple of men stopped by on May 31.

According to a police incident report, it was a Kentucky man’s failure to wear his seat belt that ultimately led to his arrest for violating Georgia’s Control Substance Act. His passenger, a Lilburn man, also was arrested on similar charges.

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Officer Christopher Dusik wrote in his report that he stopped a 1997 Pontiac Bonneville near the intersection of Lawrenceville Highway and Killian Hill at 10:24 a.m. on May 31 because the driver wasn’t strapped in.

The officer found that the driver had a suspended driver’s license and the man was subsequently arrested for that offense. Before searching the car, the officer was told by the passenger that “some pills” were next to his door.

Police found seven bottles containing a total of 31.5 Oxycodone pills and one Hydrocodone pill. None of the bottles had either man’s name on the label. One pill bottle had a woman’s name on it that corresponded to a name on a medical card found in the driver's wallet.

Both men were arrested and charged. They were taken to the county jail.

And, yes, the driver was ticketed for not clicking it.

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