A Ruston man was arrested early Tuesday morning after suspected ecstasy was found in his jacket pocket by police.
Joshua Crowe, 26, was arrested on December 16 at 1:30 a.m. after Ruston Police investigated a call of a suspicious vehicle at an apartment complex.
Officers responded to a parking lot on Trinity Way off Cooktown Road regarding a report of an occupied vehicle that had been running for hours. When officers arrived, they found three men sitting in the running vehicle. The odor of marijuana was detected coming from the car.
A partially burned marijuana cigarette was seen on the back floorboard of the vehicle. A search located a jacket on the passenger seat that contained five MDMA tablets, commonly known as ecstasy, along with Crowe’s driver’s license, Social Security card, and debit card.
No one in the vehicle claimed the ecstasy. However, Crowe was separated from the other two men and when shown the jacket, he reached for it, indicating it was his. He said there was nothing illegal in the jacket and was told the ecstasy had already been found.
Crowe was arrested and booked at the Lincoln Parish Detention Center for possession of MDMA (ecstasy).
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