Officer Stops Litterer, Finds Contents of Stolen Packages in Car

An officer trying to get to the bottom of a littering incident uncovered more than just a crime against the environment.

On Jan. 10, a Gwinnett County Police officer on patrol in the area of Clack Road and Mineral Springs Road noticed the driver of a black Mercedes pull into a driveway and throw a large white object out the window. The driver, later identified as Tyler Vreeland, 19, of Buford, began to drive away but was pulled over by the officer.

“I approached the driver’s door and asked [Vreeland] what the littering was all about and he said that he was just trying to get rid of some of the trash in his vehicle,” the officer wrote in the report.

The officer noticed a slight odor of marijuana and asked Vreeland if there were any drugs or weapons in the vehicle. Vreeland reportedly said it had been “a while” since anyone smoked marijuana in the vehicle and denied having anything else in the vehicle.

“I could see that there were a lot of new items in the vehicle and what appeared to be bubble wrap lined envelopes for sending items through the mail,” the officer wrote.

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