Police charged a teen with possession of marijuana after small bags of the drugs fell out of his pants pocket while talking to an officer.
Salisbury Police charged Jaquarius Givens, 17, of the 2200 block of Moore Street, with misdemeanor simple possession of a schedule VI controlled substance.
An officer stopped the teen at 2 a.m. Sunday near West Monroe and Institute streets. The officer spoke with the teen who had his hands inside his pockets. When the officer asked him to remove his hands a small bag with two other smaller bags fell onto the ground. He tried to step on it, but the officer saw it, a report said.
A report said Givens told the officer the drugs weren’t his and that he was “just walking.” Officials seized one gram of marijuana. He was issued a $300 secured bond.
In other police reports.
• A teen reported Friday an accident at Salisbury High in the 500 block of Lincolnton Road.
• A man reported Friday someone picked his pocket while in the 100 block of East Liberty Street.
• A woman reported Friday a larceny in the 1300 block of Glenwood Avenue.
• A man reported Friday an assault in the 300 block of Huntington Drive.
• A woman reported Friday someone took her Kindle Fire tablet in the 1100 block of West Fisher Street.
• A man reported Saturday a robbery in the 300 block of Bendix Drive.
• A man reported Saturday a larceny in the 400 block of Pinewood Avenue.
• A man reported Saturday someone stole his moped in the 700 block of East Council Street.
• A teen reported Saturday someone assaulted her in the 1500 block of West Horah Street and Livingstone Avenue.
• A woman reported Sunday a vandalism in the 700 block of Lincolnton Road.
• A man reported Sunday an assault in the 1400 block of Statesville Boulevard.
• A woman reported Sunday an assault in the 700 block of Maple Avenue.
• A woman reported Sunday larceny from a motor vehicle in the 100 block of Clancy Street.
• Rowan County Administration reported Monday someone forced entry into the building in the 2700 block of Cottage Street.
• Salisbury Metal Products reported Sunday someone spraypainted the side of the business sometime between 5 p.m. Saturday and 1:49 p.m. Sunday.
• A man reported Sunday a burglary occurred in the 700 block of Faith Road.
• A man reported Sunday possible identity theft in the 400 block of South Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue.
• SCS Services reported Sunday an attempted breaking and entering occurred in the 1000 block of Old West Innes Street.
• Michael Wayne Brooker Jr., 26, was charged Saturday with two counts felony sell or deliver a controlled substance schedule I and two counts felony possession with intent to manufacture, sell and deliver a controlled substance schedule I at the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office. He turned himself in to authorities.
• Jaris Ambrose Stoddard, 28, was charged Sunday with misdemeanor simple assault in the 300 block of Huntington Drive.
In sheriff’s reports:
• A man reported Thursday a larceny from a building in the 7300 block of Blackwelder Road.
• A woman reported Thursday an assault at her home in the 300 block of Tanglewood Drive, Kannapolis.
• A man reported Thursday his grandson removed $1,300 from his account in the 400 block of Jacobs Lambe Lane.
• Jason Wayne Chadwick, 32, and Crystal Nicole Manley, 25, were charged Thursday with felony larceny in the 1200 block of Grace Church Road.
• Brian Allen Erdman, 38, was charged Thursday with misdemeanor larceny at the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office.
• Justin Lynn Laturno, 20, was charged with misdemeanor resist, obstruct, delay an officer; misdemeanor simple possession of scheduled III controlled substance, misdemeanor possession of marijuana, and misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia in the 1000 block of Elm Tree Lane, China Grove.
• Skylar Brooke Knolls, 20, was charged Thursday with misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia in the 1000 block of Elm Tree Lane, China Grove.
• Dustin Dale Montgomery, 24, was charged Thursday with felony breaking and entering in a building at the Sheriff’s Office.
Contact reporter Shavonne Potts at 704-797-4253.