DELAND, Fla. — A Florida man is facing charges after footage from a traffic stop appears to show him drop half a pound of drugs under a deputy’s cruiser.
The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office shared video of the traffic stop in a news release on Facebook. In the video, John Schneider can be seen standing with a deputy when a bag falls to the ground.
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The deputy immediately orders Schneider to be arrested, saying: “He dropped a bag. It looked like dope.” In the background, his girlfriend, identified as Lee Sanberg, who had been in the car with Schneider, can be heard saying, “Aww, man.”
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Deputies said they found an additional gram of methamphetamine inside Schneider’s sock. In the post, deputies said Schneider had just purchased the drugs and was bringing them back to Orange City to sell them.
Both Sanberg and Schneider said the drugs did not belong to them, WFLA reported.
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