Alex Wiley Smith
LIMESTONE COUNTY-Limestone County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested a suspect on Friday, February 19 on various drug charges. The Limestone County Sheriff’s Office released a statement concerning the arrest:
“A Virginia man was arrested Friday when he asked for a ride from a deputy while transporting numerous illegal drugs, including heroin.
Alex Wiley Smith, 38, was charged with Possession of Marijuana 1st Degree, Possession of a Controlled Substance, and Drug Trafficking. He is held in the Limestone County Jail on $57,500 bond.
While refueling his patrol vehicle at the Shell station at the intersection of U.S. Highway 72
and I-65, the deputy was asked by a clerk if he could give Smith a ride to Wal-Mart. Smith consented to a search of his person prior to being given the courtesy transport, and the deputy found two suboxone strips in his pocket. Smith had a backpack and two duffel bags with him, and further investigation yielded the following items: a container with 0.5 grams of methamphetamine, 6.4 grams of marijuana, 0.7 grams of crystals (to be identified after further testing), 5 baggies containing 5.2 grams of black tar heroin, a “ball” of black tar heroin weighing 13.2 grams, 18 needles, 1 cooking spoon, 2 smoking pipes for marijuana, 1 smoking pipe for methamphetamine, 1 grinder, and a large quantity of plastic baggies commonly used for packaging small amounts of narcotics.
Narcotics investigators responded after Smith’s arrest and performed field tests on the drugs.”
