A Ruston man was arrested by Grambling Police earlier this month after drugs were found in his vehicle on a traffic stop.
Elliot Lentell Daniels, 45, was stopped on May 7 after a GPD officer saw him crossing the center line of the roadway on Stadium Boulevard several times.
Daniels could not provide a driver’s license or vehicle registration. The officer smelled a strong odor of marijuana coming from inside Daniels’s truck.
When asked if he had any marijuana inside the truck, Daniels said yes and grabbed a brown paper bag containing suspected marijuana.
A search of the vehicle located 2.5 grams of marijuana and two tablets of alprazolam.
Daniels said he did not have a prescription for the alprazolam and it had obtained it from a family member for neck pain.
Daniels was arrested and booked at the Lincoln Parish Detention Center for possession of marijuana, possession of alprazolam—a Schedule II controlled substance, and improper lane usage.
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