A 25-year-old Ocala man was arrested by Wildwood police early Wednesday morning on U.S. 301 on a charge of marijuana possession.
Daniel Lewis Eaves was a passenger in a vehicle which was southbound on U.S. 301 at County Road 104. The police officer observed that the car had no operable tag lights over the license plate and initiated a traffic stop.
After obtaining the identification information from the driver and his passenger, the officer called for backup from a Sumter County sheriff’s deputy who had a K-9 trained to detect drugs. That K-9, Diesel, alerted on Eaves’ wallet which he had left on the front seat of the vehicle. The officer examined the wallet and recovered a green leafy substance which tested positive for marijuana.
Eaves was taken into custody and transported to the Wildwood Police Department for processing and then to the Sumter County Detention Center for booking where bond was set at $1,000. The driver of the vehicle was issued a warning ticket for inoperable tag lights.
