A truck driver has been arrested on multiple drug charges in Edmonson County.
Monday morning at approximately 11:00, the Edmonson County Sheriff’s Office responded to a reckless semi-truck traveling south on Veterans Memorial Highway, near Chalybeate School Road. When deputies arrived in the area, the truck driver, 49-year-old Phillip W. Myers, of Glasgow, slammed on the brakes of the semi and pulled into the emergency lane.
Police then made contact with Myers, who was standing outside the truck with a red towel in his hand, according to police. Myers initially failed to comply when a deputy asked to see Myers’ hands. Myers, though, “eventually put the red towel in his back pocket” and showed the deputy his hands, according to police.
As the deputy questioned Myers about the reckless driving complaint, the suspect “kept trying to place his hands in his pockets and in doing so, the deputy observed a knife in Myers’ right front pocket,” police said.
Police then searched Myers and located suspected hydrocodone pills and drug paraphernalia containing suspected methamphetamine residue on the red towel.
Myers was arrested and charged with two counts of possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine, drug unspecified), having a prescription controlled substance not in its proper container, possession of drug paraphernalia, and no registration plates.
He was lodged in the Hart County Jail but is no longer listed as an inmate.
By Ken Howlett, News Director
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