Jared Johnston (Photo courtesy of Ozark County Sheriff’s Office)
A Bakersfield man was recently arrested when a deputy agreed to give him a ride when his car was being towed, but he had to grab something out of his car first to take with him. That something was his drugs. Forty-five-year-old Jared Wayne Johnston is facing two felony charges for the incident.
According to information from the Ozark County Sheriff’s Office, a deputy made a traffic stop on Johnston’s vehicle in Bakersfield July 26. He told the deputy he did not have insurance on the vehicle, but he did have some marijuana in the car.
Since he did not have insurance, the vehicle had to be towed. Another deputy agreed to give Johnston a ride due to the heat, and Johnston grabbed his canned vegetables and bucket of marijuana. In Missouri, the legal limit of marijuana a person can possess is three ounces. Johnston told the deputy he had 2.5 ounces.
When the deputy inspected the bucket, he discovered much more than just what Johnston said he had inside. The deputy found one pound of marijuana, multiple baggies of methamphetamine weighing 43 grams, a scale, a broken glass pipe and a cell phone.
Johnston is facing felony charges of trafficking drugs and unlawful possessing of drug paraphernalia with intent to use. He is free on bond.
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