Crime & Safety

Police: Drug Suspect Phoned a Friend

GCPD say he called in help to clean out his car after traffic stop.

Police allege the suspect in a traffic stop called in his own backup to grab a stash of more than 10 pounds of marijuana from his car after he fled the scene on foot.

Jerome Simmons, 23, of Cohen Circle in Ladson, was pulled over late Wednesday afternoon in the Burger King parking lot on N. Goose Creek Boulevard.

Goose Creek Police say that after Simmons fled the scene on foot, he called Takeya Robinson, 22, of Hollywood Drive. She later told police that Simmons asked her to go get the marijuana from his car and she took it back to her house.

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Officers say a citizen alerted them to the fact that a woman had arrived after the traffic stop and taken drugs from the car and then left the scene in her own vehicle. An off-duty Moncks Corner police officer later spotted her car in the Sun Trust Bank lot on St. James Avenue.

An officer identified Robinson as the woman who had appeared at the scene of the traffic stop. Between Robinson home and Jerome Simmons car, police say they found a total of more than 10 pounds of marijuana and more than $8,800.

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Jerome Simmons was charged with resisting arrest and several charges related to trafficking marijuana. Bond was set today at $30,000.

Police say warrants are being issued for Robinson.


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