Traffic stop results in teen’s arrest on felony charge
A local teen with felony charges pending from October was arrested early Wednesday following a routine traffic stop after a felony amount of marijuana was allegedly found in his possession.
Kayedin Edward Clark, 18, who lists a Schwinn Hill Place address, was taken into custody shortly after 1 a.m. and charged with a felony count of possession of marijuana with purpose to deliver, punishable by up to six years in prison, and a misdemeanor count of possession of drug paraphernalia.
Clark was being held on a $3,500 bond and is set to appear on Jan.
10 in Garland County District Court. He was previously arrested on
Oct. 15 on two felony counts of terroristic threatening and misdemeanor counts of resisting arrest and obstructing government operations and was released four days later on a $5,000 bond with the case pending in Garland County Circuit Court.
According to the probable cause affidavit, shortly before 1 a.m. Wednesday, Garland County sheriff’s Deputy Chris Brinsfield was on patrol in the 4300 block of Park Avenue when he saw a silver Mitsubishi Mirage without a license plate and stopped it.
As he approached the vehicle, Brinsfield said he smelled a strong odor of suspected marijuana and asked the driver, identified as Clark, if there was any marijuana in the car. Clark reportedly handed him a “smashed piece of cigar” containing marijuana he said he had just smoked.
Brinsfield had Clark exit the car and as he did so the deputy reportedly saw a second cigar similar to the first in the door handle. When asked if it had marijuana too, Clark reportedly said he “forgot about that one.”
Clark was detained and Brinsfield started to do an inventory of the vehicle when Clark “yelled out” to his female juvenile passenger to grab her bag from the floorboard. The deputy asked the passenger what bag he was talking about and she reportedly said she didn’t have a bag in the vehicle.
Brinsfield located a backpack in the driver’s floorboard and could reportedly smell marijuana coming from it. He allegedly found a zip-top bag containing 54 grams, or almost 2 ounces, of marijuana, one grinder, digital scales and a marijuana pipe with residue inside.