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Drug arrest
Man incorrectly accused of assault arrested for possession
A 20-year-old man was in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong stuff in his possession Wednesday. The result was a trip to the Henderson County Jail on a drug charge.
Justin Jermain Davis was booked into the Henderson County Jail for possession of a controlled substance (1 to 4) grams. He was also held for evading arrest and detention with a previous conviction.
Athens Police Department Lt. Mike Davis said the drug arrest grew out of an APD response to a reported assault. At about 9:45 p.m., dispatch received a call from a 31-year-old woman who said she had been assaulted by an unknown man at the Stopper Shop on North Palestine Street.
The complainant told the officer that she did not know the name of the man who committed the Class C misdemeanor.
Shortly after 10 a.m., the complainant reported seeing a man who looked like the assailant. Cpl. Gregory Hill went to the individual, and ordered him to stop.
“He just kept walking until he got his drugs discarded. Then he came back,” Davis said.
Officers located the drugs, and arrested the suspect. When the complainant got a chance to see the suspect, Davis, up close, she realized that he was not the man who committed the assault.
The assault is still under investigation, Davis said.
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