A Choudrant man was arrested by the Lincoln Parish Sheriff’s Office last Monday after deputies responded to a report of a reckless driver.
Toby Lee Bozyonne, 43, was charged with drug offenses and reckless driving Monday evening.
A citizen reported the reckless vehicle was on La. Highway 3072. A deputy located the vehicle and saw it swerving back and forth within the travel lane. The vehicle continued for some distance before stopping for the deputy’s lights and siren. Bozyonne was the driver.
A drug detection K-9 conducted an open-air sniff around the vehicle. The canine alerted to the odor of narcotics and a search was conducted.
A search of a backpack on the front passenger seat located a plastic baggy of pills identified as buprenorphine, a Schedule III controlled substance, and a folded piece of tinfoil containing suspected methamphetamine. The backpack also contained a syringe commonly used to consume methamphetamine.
A digital scale was found on the floor near the center console. A finely ground green substance was found in a metal container in the center console. Bozyonne said he did not know what the substance was called, but that he had gotten it from “a hippie in Alabama.” Tramadol, a Schedule IV controlled substance, was also located.
The concerned citizen who called in the reckless vehicle met deputies and said the vehicle had been all over the road and possibly struck a bridge.
Bozyonne was booked at the Lincoln Parish Detention Center for possession of methamphetamine, possession of buprenorphine, possession of tramadol, possession of drug paraphernalia, and careless operation of a vehicle.
Bail was set at $31,000 but Bozyonne is also being held for the Louisiana Department of Corrections—Probation and Parole.
