Kennesaw Man Arrested on Drug Charges

A Kennesaw, Ga. man has been arrested on drug charges after police responded to a disorder at a local motel.

Last week, Samuel Larry Wynn Jr., 41, of a Freedom Landing address in Kennesaw, was charged with Possession of Marijuana for Resale, Possession of Schedule II for Resale and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. He is scheduled to appear in East Ridge Municipal Court on April 12.

According to an affidavit of complaint, officers were called to the Comfort Inn on Ringgold Road on March 17 as a result of a disorder. Police spoke with a desk clerk who told them that Wynn failed to pay for his room. The clerk said that when she went to his room she smelled what she believed to be the odor of marijuana. The clerk then called for police.

The report states that the clerk provided officers with a copy of Wynn’s Georgia identification. When officers ran the information, it was determined that Wynn had an active warrant out of Hamilton County for violating probation.

The report states that officers saw Wynn standing at a Toyota pickup truck loading items into the ope vehicle. Officers placed Wynn into custody for the probation violation and searched the man prior to being taken to jail. The report states that the officer felt a baggie in his right cargo pocket and Wynn said he had “a little bit of marijuana.” The officer also found a clear baggie of 30 blue tablets that were not marked. When officers asked when what the pills were, the report states that he told them they were percocets.

According to the report, police also found $1,652 in Wynn’s right front pocket.

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.