Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Two Drivers Arrested On Drug Charges After Falling Asleep At The Wheel

   In unrelated incidents two drivers were arrested on drug charges during the weekend after falling asleep at the wheel in inconvenient locations.

   The first incident was reported shortly after 11:30 Saturday on North Locust Avenue when a driver fell asleep while pulling from the parking lot at Traveler’s Motel. Lawrenceburg Police Officers report they awakened the driver, thirty-year-old Jamie Mark Lowery of Williams Hollow Road, Iron City. While conducting a search, they report finding that Lowery was in possession of a number of syringes, a set of digital scales, and two pills identified as Morphine and Endocet in a plastic bag.

   Officers report that Lowery did not appear to be under the influence of an intoxicant. He was issued citations charging him with possession of schedule II narcotics.

   Lowery is scheduled to answer the charge through Lawrence County General Sessions Court on April 2, 2009.

   Officers were summoned to a similar scene at Krystal’s, 1824 North Locust Avenue, around 4:30 p.m. They indicate that driver Paul Christopher Allen Byrd, 46, of 1012 Smith Circle, Lawrenceburg, was awakened by personnel with the Lawrenceburg Fire Department and Lawrence County Ambulance Service.

   Officers quickly learned that Byrd was operating the vehicle on a suspended driver license. Also, they report finding a Xanax pill in one pocket and an Oxycodone pill bottle containing ½ Morphine pill in the other.

   Byrd was subsequently charged with driving on a suspended driver license and possession of Schedule II and Schedule IV narcotics.

   Byrd, too, is scheduled for an initial appearance in Lawrence County General Sessions Court on April 2.