St. Tammany Parish sheriff’s deputies who stopped a vehicle driving erratically through a neighborhood near Covington Friday recovered fentanyl-laced marijuana and pills, as well as an assault rifle, according to a news release.
They arrested the 43-year-old driver of the vehicle, John Silas Joiner of Mandeville, according to the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office.
Joiner struggled with deputies before they took him into custody and put him in the back of a patrol car, the Sheriff’s Office news release said. And when emergency medical personnel opened the door to evaluate him, Joiner fled and detectives pursued him on foot through the neighborhood before recapturing him.
Detectives found about 7.5 grams of marijuana that also tested positive for fentanyl, 450 counterfeit Oxycodone tablets that contained fentanyl, 11 tablets of suspected Ecstacy and 28.95 grams of suspected cocaine.
A 9 mm semi-automatic style short-barreled assault rifle with a loaded 50-round drum magazine was also in the vehicle, along with a digital scale, drug packaging materials, a set of brass knuckles and $890 in cash, the Sheriff’s Office said.
Joiner, who is on parole for distribution of cocaine, morphine, and hydrocodone and illegal possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, was booked into the St. Tammany Parish jail on drug and weapons counts as well as battery on…
