A Summerville man was arrested last week when a busted taillight lead to the discovery of Meth along with a suspended license and registration.

According to reports from the Summerville Police Department, while on patrol last week Officers observed a vehicle traveling down Marvin Avenue. Initiating a traffic stop, Officers spoke with the driver, identified as Michael Adam Kent. When asked for his drivers license and registration, Kent stated that he did not have a valid drivers license at the moment and that he was only driving the car because it was messing up. A check with E-911 revealed that the registration was also suspended due to a prior DUI. Officers asked Kent to step out of the vehicle and they observed that Kent appeared to be behaving in a panicked fashion.

Officers asked for permission to search the vehicle and Kents person, and Kent agreed while stating that he did not have any illegal substances or a knife. In the front pocket of Kents jeans was a small bag of a white, crushed up pills. Kent stated that they were Gabapentin and that he had a prescription for those. Officers did find a bottle of Gabapentin prescribed to Kent in the front seat. Also discovered was were several torch lighters, a cylinder shaped tube with a bulb at the end, with what looked like meth in it.

After placing Kent in handcuffs he began to state that he was supposed to do a buy for the Bartow County Sheriffs department the next day, then he later stated that after being pulled over the previous week by the GSP that they could have left the pipe in his vehicle when they searched it. Officers placed Kent under arrest and transported him to the Chattooga County Jail. The suspected meth was field tested at the jail and did come back as positive.