A vehicle stop Wednesday evening by Ruston Police resulted in an arrest for possession of ecstasy.
Ecstasy is the street name for MDMA, a synthetic drug similar to a hallucinogen.
At about 8 p.m. Wednesday, RPD Officer A. Eleam spotted a Ford Expedition matching the description from a disturbance call at the Country Inn & Suites located off the Farmerville Highway/I-20 exit.
The vehicle pulled into the Spirit Mart on Farmerville Highway. The driver, Patrick D. Jackson, 46, of Dubach, almost immediately told Officer Eleam he had about 14 grams of marijuana in the car’s center console.
During a search of the vehicle, the officer recovered a clear bag of suspected marijuana. Another bag of about nine ecstasy pills was also found.
Jackson initially said the marijuana was his, and the ecstasy belonged to his ex-wife who was in the vehicle the day before but then claimed all the drugs belonged to him.
Clark was arrested and booked at the Lincoln Parish Detention Center for two counts of possession of a Schedule I drug for the marijuana and the ecstasy.
Bail was set at $10,000.
