Canton Police Arrest Woman on Marijuana Charges

While patrolling the northeast corner of Haggerty and Van Born, Canton Township Police stopped a driver in a silver Saturn traveling southbound on Haggerty who ran a flashing red light without braking, according to a police report.

The driver told police she must not have seen the light and mentioned she had just finished work at McDonald’s.  A computer check revealed the woman had her license twice suspended and had a misdemeanor warrant out of Ann Arbor for retail fraud, the report said, and arrested the woman.

While searching the woman’s vehicle, police noticed a large amount of suspected marijuana “shake” in the center console of her vehicle, the report said, and detected the strong odor of what appeared to be marijuana. When police searched the woman’s purse, they found a foil cigar wrapper, according to the report. Inside the cigar wrapper, police found a suspected marijuana “blunt,” marijuana wrapped into a brown cigar wrapping, the report said.

Police positively tested the substance in the blunt as marijuana, the report said.

Police cited the woman on charges of driving with a suspended license.

Police arrest man on marijuana charges

While patrolling eastbound Michigan Avenue east of Belleville Road, Canton Township Police stopped a black Ford F-150 for failing to stop at a stop sign at the turnaround for eastbound to westbound Michigan Avenue, according to a police report.

When the driver was located his license, registration and proof of insurance, police noticed a tobacco grinder, often used for marijuana, on the center console near the gear shifter, the report said.  According to the report, the man quickly concealed the grinder with paperwork.

Another officer arrived at the scene, and the man admitted to having a small amount of marijuana in his center console. The second officer located a white garbage bag and clear plastic bag with suspected marijuana on the back seat of the truck, the report said. The man told police he threw the bags to the back of the truck during the traffic stop.

The man told police he owned a medical marijuana card, but said it was in his other wallet at home, the report said. He admitted to police the card had expired in June and conceded he was illegally possessing marijuana.

Police arrested the man on charges of marijuana possession.

The substance tested positive as marijuana. The man faces an Oct. 17 court date.

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