A Mississippi man was arrested after he allegedly discarded a backpack containing marijuana when approached by police on the Grambling State University campus.
Omarious Wilson, 19, of Charleston, Mississippi, was arrested August 22 for possession of marijuana within intent to distribute and violation of the Controlled Substances Act—possession in a drug-free zone.
About 9:30 p.m. on August 22, two GSU police officers on patrol in the campus’s Freshman Village was approached by female student who said several men had entered her dorm room stolen a video game controller. She pointed out the men walking across the parking lot.
As the officers approached the men, Wilson took off a backpack he was wearing and threw it underneath a vehicle. When police retrieved it, they found that it contained over 55 grams of marijuana packaged in two plastic baggies.
Wilson was arrested and when questioned at the GSU Police Department, admitted tthe backpack and the marijuana belonged to him.
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