A forty-nine-year-old Rossville, Georgia man was arrested earlier this month by Summerville Police on drug charges. 

According to a report released yesterday by the Summerville Police Department, an officer on patrol shortly after midnight on May 1st on Highland Avenue was nearly sideswiped by an oncoming vehicle.  The officer performed a traffic stop on the vehicle at George’s Kwik Stop at the end of Highland Avenue.  When the officer spoke with the driver, identified as Stephen Peeples, he noticed that the driver showed signs of impairment.

At first Peeples told the officer that he had been around other people smoking marijuana earlier that night. The officer asked Peeples if he would empty his pockets, to which Peeple’s replied “I’d rather not”.  Inside the vehicle, the officer found three marijuana cigarettes, and a glass smoking device with suspected methamphetamine.  When asked what was in the smoking device, Peeples admitted that it was methamphetamine and that he had smoked the meth earlier.

Peeples was charged with possession and use of drug related objects, possession of methamphetamine and possession of marijuana less than one ounce and was booked into the Chattooga County Jail.