HOOKERTON — Misuse of a trash can and cigarette pack led to an arrest.
A call to the Greene County Sheriff’s Office revealed to officers what the caller believed was drinking and drug use at 1195 Morris BBQ Road.
When officers arrived, there were five young people, including teenagers, gathered outside a barn on the property, Detective Charles Boyette said.
“When we pulled up,” he said, “they were all outside of it.”
Boyette said he approached Christopher Michael Albritton, 17, who lived at the residence, and asked if he could look around in the barn. Albritton said he’d have to get permission from his grandfather who was in the house, Boyette said.
He followed Albritton to the house, while another officer questioned the other four.
Albritton’s grandfather allowed the officers to search the barn where they allegedly found 21 clozapine pills inside a cigarette pack, a scale and a trash can converted into a planter with lights attached to the inside of the lid and a reflective paper liner and a bucket of soil in the can, Boyette said.
The teenager led Boyette to a field where four marijuana plants had recently been transplanted from the makeshift planter in the barn, the officer said.
There was no alcohol in the vicinity where the five people were gathered, and the four individuals with Albritton were searched.
“Nothing was found on them,” Boyette said about the four. “They were released.”
Albritton was charged with possession of a schedule IV and maintaining a dwelling for a controlled substance, manufacturing marijuana and two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia and was placed under a $22,500 secured bond.
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