Ruston Police arrested a Quitman woman and a Ruston man early last Tuesday morning after they were found passed out in a vehicle at the gas pumps of a local convenience store.
Police responded to the EZ Mart at 1500 South Vienna Street about 5 a.m. Tuesday to investigate a report of a Dodge Charger parked that had been parked at the gas pumps with the engine running for several hours. Officers found a man passed out in the driver’s seat and a woman passed out on the back seat.
The driver was awakened and a large plastic bag in the driver ‘s side door containing suspected marijuana was spotted.
The woman, Aleisha Horton Johnson was awakened, and a records check showed she was wanted for failure to appear in Ruston City Court on a no liability insurance charge. Johnson said she did not know the man behind the wheel of her car. A search of the vehicle yielded a small black zipper pouch containing methamphetamine in the driver side door and a spoon with suspected methamphetamine residue in Johnson’s purse.
The man said his name was Jakae Caleb Modest with a birth date indicating he was 16 years old. However, identification was found in Johnson’s purse showing his name was Donald Jenkins, 39, of Ruston. Jenkins was wanted on two bench warrants for failure to appear in Third District Court.
Jenkins and Johnson were taken to the Lincoln Parish Detention Center. Johnson was booked for possession of marijuana, possession of methamphetamine, possession of drug paraphernalia, and the failure to appear warrant.
Jenkins was booked for possession of marijuana, possession of methamphetamine, resisting an officer by providing false information, and the two bench warrants from Third District Court.
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