A Flowery Branch man was arrested in Barrow County on Wednesday after fleeing from a traffic stop.
“Our SIU Investigators were trying to arrest 31-year-old Aaron Tyrone Stephens, Jr., of Flowery Branch on narcotics charges,” B.J. Williams with the Hall County Sheriff’s Office. “The Georgia State Patrol actually encountered MR. Stephens on Friendship Road in the area of Bristol Industrial Parkway.”
The incident reportedly happened at around 6 p.m. on Monday. Stephens fled and abandoned his car at Kentwood Court before fleeing on foot and discarding drugs.
“Mr. Stephens had discarded two baggies of cocaine, about seven grams total,” Williams said. “Inside the vehicle, the investigators found 12 psilocybin mushroom chocolate bars that belonged to Stephens, and then they also found two weapons in the vehicle as well, a handgun and a rifle.”
Stephens was charged with possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, possession of psilocybin with intent to distribute, abandonment of dangerous drugs, possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, and use of a communications device to facilitate a drug transaction.
Stephens was transported from the Barrow County Jail to the Hall County Jail on Wednesday. He posted a bond of $20,290 and was released from custody on Thursday.
