Parish Monday March 21st 2022 the Louisiana State Police with troop F conducted a traffic stop on the 2017 Hyundai Elantra on Interstate 20 for following a vehicle too [Applause] closely how you doing man good you come on good yeah I Tri Place Okay the reason I'm stopping is you were following that panel van too close Okay okay so it's speed Interstate speed you got to keep a Distance on the front of you for instance if he pass is at 103 side you're behind him 1001 1002 1003 if you're anything 1003 or outside you're good anything within that you're too close okay yes sir with the North Carolina plates the trooper then ask the driver Gary K who was his passenger and where were they traveling from you got the call with you uh my buddy Michael what who is it my buddy Michael okay yeah for y'all coming Aran Texas I just left visiting my mom yeah mom lives out there yeah she lives in Dallas but well out you know do you still live in Neo yes sir okay y'all drove all that way to see your mama yeah and he just r with you yeah she okay yeah okay how long I stay out there about a week okay cool yeah she just moved out there about 4 months ago from Neo from Neo sir all right look I'm going to have him is the stuff in your glove box it's in the uh my registration under my the visor the visor yeah okay your insurance uh I think I have to on my phone it's on your phone can he get us he's going to grab your phone from I'm all right let me grab after hearing his story about where he came from the trooper then focused his attention on a passenger of the vehicle the audio from the passenger is in audible but the trooper as the passenger the same question questions at the driver what's your name man oh okay where yall headed to oh okay where she live at oh okay head it back now how long you stay up there over a weekend you just roll with him hang out who you work at I so you got some oh okay we work on the oh okay I got you when y'all late North Carolina can't remember remember what day oh okay all right cool all look sit tight let me just second I'll be right back with you okay hey when's y late North Carolina uh about a week ago oh okay well [Music] yeah said holay oh okay yeah got got all right what's your first name Garr after writing Mr Garrett a warning the trooper then ask Garrett to read a consent to search for me texting just a bar morning if you do me a favor and uh keep distance on the vehicle probably I Happ got element of crashes that occur out here and if you follow to the post and he stops abruptly you can't stop time if you hit him it's going cause a chain reaction back up behind you okay let say right quick SE car okay need do is you need to read it from here to here so you understand it completely and then uh if you allow you sign here if you don't you know have to sign okay yeah but read it so you understand it first just this part right here you understand all that yes sir so I want to search your car yes or no no sir all right cool don't worry about it the trooper says that he's going to search anyway because of the obvious smell of marijuana coming from the vehicle no sir all right cool don't worry about it I smell weed coming out of so I'm going search it anyway I just want to see how Cooperative you can be for me okay um so let me get old boy you don't have anything on you not so say no no no I didn't say big put your hand turn [Applause] around look man I a hey hey hey just just just listen just listen where you work at where you work at maintenance do what now maintenance main you're a maintenance guy you play pretty well huh I got chance now doing a search in the back seat and open view the trooper find what appears to be ta SE wax [Music] [Applause] [Music] as the trooper conduct his search you can visibly see that the driver is very nervous what's in there bro what huh okay put your phone up man what put your phone up how much weed you got in the front huh much to really say all right is it weed yes sir hey the Troopers then Place both men under arrest hold on I know you got this look all that right there that's butter KY [Applause] I'mma put these hold on hey put these back on Wow look this right here this is butter it said it got more weed than than he knows yeah well when I saw those bags and look put these back in there cuz we got to take pictures and I I hadn't gone all the way through these yet but there's stuff in these too the Troopers then open a trunk and they discover a large quantity of Narcotics how much 105 105 right here 104 in the TRU that's wax that's butter right yeah okay THC got 105 in the trunk what you say 104 and there's one in the pink SE one in the pink all right give me just a sec that say hey we smell the smell since I walk the car that's what got me I asked for consent and he said no and I said man I smell it anyway so that was in here his backpack hey is that your backpack it's got your prescription meds in it it's mine yeah what's the prescription okay I got you we got a little bit of weed in there got a little bit of weed in there I'm tell you man the smell was like bad happen while waiting for another unit to transport them to the Paris jail gar then ask the Troopers about the marijuana laws in Louisiana you good what we saying what's Lou I've never looked into what's Louis say again what's Louisiana we laws marijana can't have it I mean like yeah I don't know which one what you're specifically referring I didn't know if there was any different different laws about it well I mean you can't can't this okay so uh yeah I mean it's illegal you know uh there's a there's a difference on you know depending on how much you have whether or not you get a summons or you get a res what I'm saying after searching the car the troop was found 124 lbs of marijuana inside the trunk 5 pounds of TAC Edibles five pounds of TAC pills and 34 lbs of TAC wax on the rear floorboard Garrett and his passenger did about a year in jail and they played out to 18 months probation T I'm just dude hey look and it wait till you I knew as soon as I walked up and I saw those two suitcases in the back I was like what was funny heard suicide that's a suicide that's all t [Music] the state boys on the highway