He just ‘had to pick up his lady’ … and get high

A UAPD officer on patrol Monday at 8:24 p.m. noticed a green van with an expired registration and an exposed back brake light.

The officer stopped the van near the intersection of Euclid Avenue and Broadway Boulevard and identified the driver by an Arizona Identification Card.

The officer could smell marijuana coming from the car as the driver told the officer that he did not have a driver’s license.

A records check showed the man’s license had been suspended since 1998.

While one officer searched the van, the man told another UAPD officer he had smoked a joint 30 minutes before being pulled over and had marijuana in the car.

The man said he bought “two dime bags of weed from a man in his teens near 22nd Street and Park Avenue, near a school.”

The man also told the officer he knew his license was not valid, but he “had to pick up his lady.”

While the man was answering questions, the officer searching the van found two bags of marijuana between the driver’s seat and door.

The man was arrested for possession of marijuana and driving with a suspended license. He was cited and released on scene.

The bags of marijuana were put into UAPD property as evidence and sent to the Department of Public Safety for testing. The van was also towed for a 30-day mandatory impound.