NEWS SOURCE

Paxton, FL (March 9, 2010)

A routine traffic stop for speeding on U.S. Highway 331 in Paxton leads to a drug arrest by the Walton

County Sheriff’s Office. On Friday night, a vehicle driven by Charles Fleming III of Tuscaloosa, Alabama was

stopped for speeding. There was also two passengers in the vehicle.

During the stop, Fleming said he did not have a problem of the Sheriff’s Office K-9 performing a

vehicle sniff. During the sniff, the dog alerted to drugs in the vehicle. Mr. Fleming was asked again if he

minded a search of the vehicle in which he said, “I don’t see what else you need to do, but yeah you can look”.

The 23-year-old told the Deputy that they were on Spring Break, and were heading to his father’s beach house.

In the trunk of the vehicle, there was a bag, which contained a wooden box. At this time, Fleming told

the Deputy, “I have oxycotin and xanax”. The contents of the box were later identified as three oxycotin pills,

five xanax pills, along with an unidentified white pill.

Mr. Fleming was charged with two felony counts of possession of a controlled substance without a

prescription along with a misdemeanor count of possession of drug paraphernalia. He has been released from

the Walton County Jail under a 25-hundred dollar bond.