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Bryan police find drugs, weapons in car of Blinn student after accident
By: Benjamin Fort
Issue date: 3/6/07 Section: News
Bryan police officer William Cross observed Blinn student Joe Phommachack's white Nissan pickup lodged under billboards at 6:28 a.m Thursday at the intersection of East Villa Maria Road and Cavitt Avenue in Bryan said Peter Scheets, assistant chief of the Bryan Police Department.
Before crashing into the billboards, Phommachack's vehicle left the roadway and struck an unattended Chevy Tahoe, forcing the vehicle into a residence, according to the police report.
After Phommachack refused treatment from medics, Cross looked inside the vehicle and smelled marijuana. He observed a clear plastic bag between the cup holder containing marijuana and a throwing star. A bag on the driver-side door storage compartment contained white and blue Xanax. Another bag was later found containing orange amphetamine pills. Cross observed a marijuana pipe that resembled a cigarette and contained marijuana residue.
Phommachack said he was at his friend's home at Reveille Ranch Apartments and on his way to breakfast when his wheels started sliding, and he lost control.
At the scene, Phommachack was clutching a large, plastic bag filled with eight smaller, plastic bags containing marijuana.
Cross confirmed that it was marijuana and arrested Phommachack and placed him in the patrol car, the police report stated. The Blinn student is detained in the Brazos County Jail on $430,000 bond.
After an arrest, police officers are allowed to search a vehicle by law, Scheets said.
A search in the vehicle turned up a 7.62 black Norinco wooden stock rifle, brass knuckles with a blade attachment and a tied yellow bag containing four plastic bags filled with Psilocybin mushrooms.
Phommachack was arrested on charges of three misdemeanors and four felonies for possession of two marijuana pipes, a portable digital scale, a throwing star, a set of gold colored brass knuckles with a blade attachment, a rifle, 6.4 ounces of marijuana, 2.1 grams of 12 pills, 2.6 grams of 22 other pills, 24 grams of chopped up Psilocybin mushrooms and the intent to deliver the marijuana, all of which happened in a drug-free and weapon-free zone.
"Normally when we respond to an accident where the driver is intoxicated it's usually pretty clear cut," Scheets said. "In this case it was extremely rare. This person had drugs for personal use, and for sell, in addition to the weapons."
Before crashing into the billboards, Phommachack's vehicle left the roadway and struck an unattended Chevy Tahoe, forcing the vehicle into a residence, according to the police report.
After Phommachack refused treatment from medics, Cross looked inside the vehicle and smelled marijuana. He observed a clear plastic bag between the cup holder containing marijuana and a throwing star. A bag on the driver-side door storage compartment contained white and blue Xanax. Another bag was later found containing orange amphetamine pills. Cross observed a marijuana pipe that resembled a cigarette and contained marijuana residue.
Phommachack said he was at his friend's home at Reveille Ranch Apartments and on his way to breakfast when his wheels started sliding, and he lost control.
At the scene, Phommachack was clutching a large, plastic bag filled with eight smaller, plastic bags containing marijuana.
Cross confirmed that it was marijuana and arrested Phommachack and placed him in the patrol car, the police report stated. The Blinn student is detained in the Brazos County Jail on $430,000 bond.
After an arrest, police officers are allowed to search a vehicle by law, Scheets said.
A search in the vehicle turned up a 7.62 black Norinco wooden stock rifle, brass knuckles with a blade attachment and a tied yellow bag containing four plastic bags filled with Psilocybin mushrooms.
Phommachack was arrested on charges of three misdemeanors and four felonies for possession of two marijuana pipes, a portable digital scale, a throwing star, a set of gold colored brass knuckles with a blade attachment, a rifle, 6.4 ounces of marijuana, 2.1 grams of 12 pills, 2.6 grams of 22 other pills, 24 grams of chopped up Psilocybin mushrooms and the intent to deliver the marijuana, all of which happened in a drug-free and weapon-free zone.
"Normally when we respond to an accident where the driver is intoxicated it's usually pretty clear cut," Scheets said. "In this case it was extremely rare. This person had drugs for personal use, and for sell, in addition to the weapons."
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