
On Friday of last week, a Summerville Police officer noticed a man and woman outside the Providence Thrift Store at the old Bi-Lo Building in Summerville. The officer approached the two and the man told the officer that he was there “praying” for the woman and asked to be left alone. The woman was a known drug offender, but the officer didn’t recognize the man. A short time later, the officer noticed the man coming out of a nearby gas station and he appeared to be under the influence of some sort of drug. After a consent to search his person, the officer found a suspected meth pipe in the man’s pocket. The suspect said that he was only “holding” the pipe for the woman he had been seen with earlier. Twenty-three-year-old Justin Ragan was arrested and booked into the Chattooga County jail on charges of public intoxication.








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