NICEVILLE - A man found on Eglin Air Force Base property was carrying hydrocodone pills, according to an Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office arrest report.
On Jan. 2 a deputy was summoned to White Point Road to help Eglin Security deal with trespassers.
A security officer who investigated the trespassing incident told the deputy he found three individuals. One man, Chester Lee Smith, 56, of Niceville, could not find his identification. When the officer asked what was in his pocket, Smith produced a bottle of pills.
The bottle was prescribed to a different person than Smith and containe 16 hydrocodone pills.
The officer was told Smith tried to sell the pills to people in Fort Walton Beach.
He was charged with trafficking in an opium derivative and has a Feb. 26 court date.
