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  Checkpoint leads to arrest of two suspected drug dealers web posted July 8, 2008 EDGEFIELD – Edgefield Police have taken two more alleged drug dealers off the streets during a checkpoint license check just before the July 4 holiday. While conducting a checkpoint with the assistance of the South Carolina Highway Patrol, police had two teens pull up in blue Mitsubishi. While asking the driver for his license and insurance the officer smelled a “heavy odor of marijuana” and asked the driver and his passenger if they had been smoking marijuana in the car. Both said no. The officer had the driver pull to the side and had both teens exit the car. As the investigation continued a cigarette pack that had one rolled cigarette believed to be marijuana inside. As the search of the car was conducted a “to go cup” from a restaurant partially filled was found to contain three clear plastic bags of what was also believed to be marijuana. The driver, 17-year-old George Deatron Jones Jr., of W. A. Reel Drive, Edgefield said the pack of cigarettes belonged to his cousin, “who smokes marijuana,” reports state. Asked about the remaining drugs Jones stated some of the drugs were his, “but not all’. Jones was placed under arrest, as was his passenger, 18-year-old Taylor Kenneth Brooks, of Telfair Street, Augusta, Georgia. Both men were booked into the Edgefield County Detention Center on a custody hold for pending warrants for possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute and possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute within the proximity of a school or park. A total of 32.6 grams of marijuana was seized along with a total of $45. ©
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