A woman who pulled off the road to see why a Brunswick police officer had stopped her friend was arrested herself after a drug-sniffing dog alerted on her car, police said.
A Brunswick police officer stopped a Jeep about 1:15 p.m. Tuesday on the F.J. Torras Causeway after its driver failed to stop for a stoplight while turning onto the causeway from the mainland, Brunswick Police Capt. Kevin Jones said.
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As the officer talked with the driver, he noticed a strong odor of marijuana from the Jeep and called for a dog trained to sense the presence of drugs, Jones said.
After the dog, K-9 Brax II, alerted on the Jeep, officers searched it and found .10 grams of cocaine, a half-pound of marijuana and 205.1 grams of suspected marijuana powder, Jones said.
The driver of the Jeep, Odet Douglass, 25, of St. Simons Island, was charged with possession of cocaine, possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute and running a traffic light, Jones said.
While officers were conducting the investigation of the Jeep, a woman in another vehicle pulled over and asked why police had stopped Douglass, who she said was her friend, Jones said.
The woman was instructed to leave the scene, but she remained and Brax II alerted on her vehicle, Jones said.
Officers searched it and found 19.6 grams of marijuana and an open container of alcohol, Jones said.
The driver of the second vehicle, Katherine Lang, 25, of Brunswick, was charged with possession of less than an ounce of marijuana and possession of an open container, police said.
Douglass posted $18,208 in bail Tuesday and was released, Glynn County Sheriff’s Office records show.
Lang was also released.
The suspected marijuana powder was sent to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation crime lab for identification.
Glynn-Brunswick Narcotics Enforcement Team investigators said that if the substance tests positive as marijuana powder, it will be the first time any has been seized in Glynn County.
