By Jacob Bembry
Greene Publishing, Inc.
A Madison man was arrested for drug trafficking on Saturday, October 11.
According to a Madison Police Department report, Straughter was patrolling on Base Street, Patrolman Eric Gilbert stopped a 1997 Crown Victoria for a traffic violation.
As Gilbert approached the vehicle, he smelled marijuana. He asked the driver, Roger Straughter, for his driver’s license.
Gilbert issued a Straughter a citation for the expired tag. He then asked Straughter if he had any marijuana in his car or on his person.
Straughter said that he did not and that Gilbert could take a look.
Gilbert asked Straughter to step out of his vehicle and to the front of the patrol vehicle.
Following a search by Gilbert, Madison County Sheriff’s Sgt. David Harper and his K-9 and Sheriff’s Cpl. Kevin Anderson, $2,180 in cash, marijuana and a firearm were found.
The police also seized Straughter’s car.
Straughter was charged with marijuana trafficking and possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony.