Earlier this month, Chattooga County Sheriff’s Deputies received a “be on the lookout” call from Chattooga County 911 about a reckless driver on Highway 27.  Dispatchers said that the vehicle had entered the county from Walker County and was driving at high rates of speed and the vehicle did not have valid registration.

Deputies performed a traffic stop on Highway 27 and during the course of a pat down of the driver found something in his pocket that they believed at first to be a knife or some other weapon.  It turns out, it was a piece of aluminum foil with drugs inside.

Twenty-seven-year-old Kelby Christopher Slayton tried to pass the drugs off as marijuana, but then later admitted to deputies “yea- it is fentanyl”.

Slayton was booked into the Chattooga County Jail on charges of Possession of Schedule II Drugs and traffic violations.