TROY (WWJ) -- What started as a welfare check on two Texas residents stopped in vehicle along I-75 ended in both their arrests in Troy over Labor Day weekend.
Just after 4:30 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 2, Troy Police officers responded to northbound I-75 near Wattles Road on a report about a disabled vehicle, with the occupants trying to flag someone down.
Police arrived to find a 2021 Nissan Armada stopped on the side of the freeway, with two people inside.
According to the police report, the passenger — identified as a 26-year-old man from Wylie, Texas — was "heavily intoxicated," and had had a case of beer at his feet, along with an open beer.
The driver, a 25-year-old Texas man, admitted that he didn't have a driver's license, and gave officers the OK to search him and his vehicle.
The officers found a white powdery substance in the driver's front right pocket, and he was arrested. At the Troy PD lock-up, police said they found two more bags of white power in the man's sock.
The substance later tested positive for cocaine, and the driver was charged with Possession of Cocaine.
The passenger was issued a citation for Open Intoxicants in a Motor Vehicle and was taken to the Troy Police Department lobby to wait for someone to pick him up. That's when things took a turn.
While waiting for his ride in the lobby, police said the passenger took off all of his clothes and "was observed completely naked" in front of the public entrance to the police station.
He was arrested for Indecent Exposure.
No names were immediately released.
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