Cops Return Stritch Student to Dorm After Arresting Him for Possession

A 19-year-old Chilton man got a ride back to his dorm at Cardinal Stritch University after he was arrested by Bayside police for possession of THC. 

A Bayside officer was parked at the North Shore Fire Station No. 5 on Brown Deer Road when a car passed him with a burned out headlight. Police pulled the car over and when he went to talk to the driver, the officer immediately smelled marijuana coming from inside the car, the report said. When asked if he’d been smoking, the driver only said “cigarettes."

The officer told the driver he could smell the marijuana, but the driver denied smoking any marijuana or having any inside the car, according to the report. 

Police searched the car and found a red, Nat Sherman Classic cigarette box under the passenger seat. Inside there were eight cigarettes as well as a burned, hand-rolled, white cigarette which had a strong odor of marijuana, the police report said. 

The officer showed the box to the driver and asked him if there was anything else he wanted to say. The driver said sometimes he allows his friends or girlfriend to use his vehicle and they might have been smoking in it, the report said. He said he didn't know anything about the box or the marijuana in it.

He was arrested and cited for possession of a controlled substance, a fine of $681. 

Officers later gave him a ride back to his dorm at Stritch.