Vicksburg police officer arrests a man for drug possession

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An officer with the Vicksburg Police Department made an arrest for drug possession Friday.

At 10:32 p.m., July 24, a Vicksburg police officer responded to a stalled vehicle on the Interstate 20 Frontage Road near Clay Street.

There, Charley Brown Jr, 25, of Vicksburg, approached the officer and identified himself as the driver of the vehicle. Brown admitted that he had marijuana in the center console. The officer searched the center console and located the marijuana and a hydrocodone pill.

The officer arrested Brown for felony possession of marijuana and appeared in Vicksburg Municipal Court Monday, July 27. Judge Penny Lawson set his bond at $10,000 and bound him over to the Warren County grand jury.