The following information is gleaned from incident reports, which are public record, from the Jones County Sheriff’ s Department and Gray Police Department Sept. 5-9, 2026 Sept. 12
Smoking “retarded fruit loops”
Cpl. Morris was dispatched to a location on Hwy. 57 in reference to a suspicious vehicle. When Morris arrived at the location, she observed a truck parked that displayed a 24-hour service phone number displayed on the truck. Morris tried to call the phone number, but no one answered. The corporal went to the vehicle and checked the cab of the truck and noticed a male subject in the passenger seat. Morris called out to the male subject, but he did not respond, however, she did notice the male was conscious with his eyes open and sitting hunched over. The male subject’s eyes were wide open, and he was making movement. The male never looked at the corporal and started playing around with some items in a bucket and a box cutter. The bucket was beside the male subject, between the passenger and driver seat and Morris saw a red box cutter, some glass and what appeared to be a pipe known to be used for ingesting/smoking crack cocaine. Morris attempted to open the driver’s side door of the truck, but it was locked. The corporal then went to the passenger side door and found it locked. Morris instructed the male subject to open the door and he said he would, however, the male remained hunched over the bucket. Morris then went back to the driver’s side door and again told the male to open the door. The corporal noticed the male subject begin playing with some copper/ black items on the bucket and he then put what was suspected to be a crack pipe to his lips, lit the end of the pipe and inhaled whatever was in the pipe. The male still did not adhere to the corporal’s command to unlock the door of the vehicle.
Morris asked the male if he was smoking crack in the pipe and the male said no and again inhaled from the pipe. The corporal then asked the male if he was smoking meth and he said no and kept smoking from the pipe. Morris asked the male again what he was smoking, and he stated, “something called retarded fruit loops.” At that time, Dep. Humphries arrived on scene and both he and Morris gave the male subject commands to open the door. Morris then observed the male subject stomping something in the floorboard of the truck, and eventually unlocked the door.
The male exited the vehicle and was placed in handcuffs. Morris searched the male subject and found a key and wads of cash in his pockets. The male was wet from sweat and advised the corporal he had urinated on himself. The corporal asked the male subject how long he had been inside the vehicle and the male stated a few hours. Dep. Humphries then asked the male subject what he was doing, and the male stated that he was “just getting high.” While escorting the male subject to her patrol vehicle, Morris noticed blood on the male’s pants and the pants were severely ripped and cut. The corporal asked the male how that happened, and he could not tell her. Morris took pictures of the inside of the truck and in the passenger floorboard where the male was stomping, she found what appeared to be two small white sharp rocks that looked different. Based on experience, Morris suspected the rocks to be crack cocaine. Morris also recovered the box cutter and the pipe the male was smoking and another black and blue item that appeared to have some copper mesh in it that was also used as a pipe. The corporal found miscellaneous pieces of burnt and balled up copper mesh known to make pipes, and some broken glass that had burnt residue on it with a sticky brown residue. EMS arrived on scene to check the male subject’s wounds and determined the wounds could not be sutured because they may be more than six hours old. The male declined EMS transport and was then transported to the Jones County LEC. When the male subject was handed over to jail staff and searched, the jail officer heard something fall to the floor and the male subject tried to step on whatever fell. The jail officer found another sharp white rock that matched what Morris found inside the vehicle of the male subject. The jail officer then found two more of the rocks where the male was standing. The male subject was issued warrants for possession of schedule II narcotics, possession of drug related items, crossing guard lines and tampering with evidence.
Sept. 15
No headlights leads to arrest
Officer Holloway was patrolling the area of Bill Conn Pkwy. and Gray Hwy. when he observed a vehicle approaching with no headlights on after dark. The officer activated his blue lights and stopped the vehicle on West Clinton St. Holloway exited his patrol vehicle and made contact with the female driver. While speaking to the female driver, Holloway smelled the odor of marijuana coming from inside the vehicle. The officer had the female driver and male juvenile passenger exit the vehicle for further investigation. Holloway advised the female that he smelled the marijuana and asked her several times if there was any in the vehicle. The female advised the officer that there was nothing inside the vehicle. Holloway advised the female he was going to perform a probable cause search due to the odor of marijuana. While searching the vehicle, the officer located a black backpack in the passenger seat. Inside the backpack Holloway located a loaded Glock 23 .40 cal., a loaded Taurus G2C9mm and a clear cellophane bag containing suspected marijuana. The female driver was then placed in custody, handcuffed and placed inside Holloway’s patrol vehicle. Officer Farley arrived on scene and took the juvenile passenger home. Holloway transported the female driver to the LEC where she was charged with no headlights after dark, adult seatbelt violation, child seatbelt violation and possession of marijuana less than one ounce.
