FORT WALTON BEACH – A man who was being taken by ambulance to the hospital suffered further woes when an EMT found marijuana in his underpants.
On May 13, 32-year-old Harrison Preston of Fort Walton Beach was being taken to the hospital after a battery incident at a convenience store on James Lee Road. An EMT who was trying to secure Harrison in the ambulance found a bag filled with a “green leafy substance” stuffed in his underpants.
An Okaloosa County Sheriff’s deputy wrote in the arrest report that he saw several pieces of a green, leafy substance stuck in Preston’s pubic hair.
The marijuana totaled 31.2 grams.
Preston was charged with possession of a controlled substance without a prescription. His court date is June 25.