By John Estridge
A man found slumped over his steering wheel at the Marathon station parking lot in Laurel was arrested and charged with Possession of Methamphetamine, as a Level 6 Felony.
Thomas L. Walston, 29, was arrested by Franklin County Sheriff’s Department Major Gregory Mehlbauer Wednesday, February 3.
In the Affidavit for Probable Cause, written by Mehlbauer, he said he was dispatched to the Marathon station where he and other officers found Walston in the driver’s seat of the vehicle, and he was being checked by first responders.
After the first responders finished with Walston, Mehlbauer and other officers searched Walston’s vehicle. Mehlbauer found a black nylon bag on the center console. Inside the bag, Mehbauer said he discovered, among other items, three individually-wrapped plastic bags containing a clear, white crystalline substance that Mehlbauer recognized as methamphetamine.
If convicted of a Level 6 Felony, Walston could receive a sentence from six months to two-and-a-half years in the Franklin County Security Center.
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