A Piqua man was arrested for drug possession and tampering with evidence after overheard phone calls prompted law enforcement to search a vehicle during a traffic stop.
Deputies of the Logan County Sheriff’s Office stopped a 2018 GMC Terrain for speeding shortly after midnight, Sunday, May 25 at state routes 235 and 366.
Upon making contact with the driver, James H. Daniels, 30, deputies overheard someone on the other end of a Bluetooth-phone call with him say “take a deep breath.” A subsequent call appeared on the vehicle’s computer screen as “Bag Man” and someone in the background of that call was overheard saying “he’s going to catch a felony.”
Deputies also detected an odor of marijuana coming from the vehicle.
Daniels agreed to and passed field sobriety tests.
The driver also consented to a vehicle search, during which time he answered another call and told the other party, “I mean if you can come get my car, that would be cool.”
Deputies discovered orange pills in the vehicle, and when asked about them, the suspect said they were possibly left in the vehicle earlier by friends while he was at a campgrounds.
The orange pills were identified as Adderall.
After being arrested, the suspect admitted to deputies the orange pills were Adderall and further admitted that he had thrown a white pill, later identified as Percocet, into the grass near the sheriff vehicle.
Daniels was lodged in the Logan County Jail.
