West Virginia man calls 911 and turns over drug hoard after hearing president’s speech on addiction https://t.co/McLceMRC0S
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) October 29, 2015
The man, whose name was not released, told deputies he was a heavy drug user but hoped to “live a drug-free life for his mother” after watching Obama’s speech, the sheriff’s office said in a statement.
He showed deputies a cooler where he kept a set of digital scales, 16 Suboxone packs and patches, marijuana, 19 grams of ecstasy and more than 150 pain pills.
The deputies seized the drugs and took them to an evidence technician for disposal, the sheriff’s office said.
No criminal charges were filed against the man, who is in his mid-30s, and deputies took him to a treatment center, where he voluntarily entered a drug addiction rehabilitation program.