Traffic stop leads to drug arrest

Story by Press Reporter Shannon Taylor

On Oct. 22 at 5:51 p.m., Dep. Joseph Crocker with the Weakley County Sheriff’s Department observed a silver SUV turn onto Travis Road off of Highway 22. When Crocker ran the tag through dispatch, it came back registered to an orange 2001 Honda.

Crocker turned on his emergency lights and stopped the driver at Dollar General on Main Street in Martin and made contact with the driver, 50-year-old Lawrence Joseph Britton.

After requesting Britton’s information, Britton told Crocker that he had no driver’s license and that it was suspended.

After running his information through dispatch it did come back revoked for a DUI out of Maury County Circuit Court.

Crockers asked Britton if there was anything illegal in the car and he told him that there was a little bit of weed and a pipe in the vehicle. Based on a probable cause search, Crocker found 1.5 grams of marijuana in two pill bottles in the front passenger seat floorboard,1.5 pills of oxycodone in a white pill bottle, and a pipe was also located with rolling papers in the same location.

Britton was placed under arrest and transported to WCSD. Britton was charged with Possession of Schedule II, Possession of Schedule VI, drug paraphernalia, driving while revoked, driving an unregistered vehicle and no insurance.