Teen tries to eat pot, hide evidence, sheriff says | Crime

TROUTMAN - A Mooresville teen tried to eat the evidence at a check point Wednesday night before being arrested, the Iredell County Sheriff's Office said.

Sheriff's Office deputies and officers with the Troutman Police Department held a check point on Oswalt Amity Road near Perry Road in Troutman.

A deputy said he smelled an odor of marijuana coming from a silver Toyota, the sheriff's office said. A K-9 unit was brought in to make a pass around the vehicle.

According to the sheriff's office, the passenger, Jesse Edmund Peveler, 19, of E. Iredell Avenue, was seen putting something in his mouth as the deputy was walking back to the car.

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Peveler allegedly had marijuana shake on his lips and in his lap.

The deputy then asked Peveler to open his mouth, which contained a large amount of pot that he was trying to swallow, the sheriff's office said. A clear plastic bag with marijuana shake in it was also found on the floor of the care.

Peveler was charged for the marijuana, drug paraphernalia obstruct and resist and delay. He was taken to the Iredell County Detention Center and was placed under a $500 secured bond