Two guys, two girls, two grinders

A University of Arizona Police Department officer was on patrol Feb. 1 at 4:05 p.m. at the intersection of Broadway Boulevard and Campbell Avenue when he noticed a car turn left onto Broadway and run a red light.

When the officer pulled over the car and was speaking with the driver and passengers of the car he could smell a strong odor of marijuana.

He asked the driver where the marijuana was in the car and the driver said the car was not his.

The passenger then reached into the glove box and pulled out a blue metal grinder that smelled of strong, burnt marijuana.

After getting out of the car, the driver told the officer that he and the other three passengers had been smoking joints at a house using rolling paper but later said that all four of them were smoking in the car with a pipe.

The officer reported the man as having a strong odor of marijuana coming from his body and said his tongue had a greenish tinted paste on it.

The officer then spoke with one of the women passengers. She claimed that she didn’t know about any marijuana. The officer reported her as also smelling of marijuana and having the same greenish tint on her tongue.

The other woman that was in the car was also questioned and she said that all four of them had been smoking a glass pipe inside the car.

All four of the passengers in the car were cited and released for possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. The driver was additionally charged with failing to obey a traffic control device.

After a search of the car was made, two metal grinders, one black, one blue, a multi-colored glass pipe with burnt residue on it and a glass jar with burnt residue inside were found. Each of the grinders had about 0.1 grams of marijuana in it.

The items were placed into property as evidence.