Four Limestone County men found out Monday night that you don’t dispose of a garbage bag containing five pounds of marijuana in front of the home of a county investigator and expect to get away with it.

Actually, the suspects tossed the black garbage bag out the window after they noticed a county deputy was about to pull them over. And they thought they had gotten away with it.

“Deputy Josh McGlauglin was patrolling Snake Road at about 9:30 Monday night when he observed a vehicle with no tail lights. When he pulled the vehicle over he smelled a strong odor of what appeared to be fresh cut marijuana,” said Limestone County Sheriff Mike Blakely. “He then arrested Jeremy Turner, 25, of Nancy Lou Loop, Athens, who was a passenger in the vehicle and charged him with possession of a small amount of marijuana.” Blakely said the driver, Laron Redus, 22, of Snake Road, was not arrested at that time.

However, Investigator Brad Curnutt who just arrived home at about that time from work, noticed a black garbage bag across the road from his driveway on Snake Road. He thought it was garbage someone had dumped and went to investigate. He found five one-pound bags of marijuana in the bag.

“He telephoned in to see if we had been chasing a vehicle or something like that and was told that Josh had stopped a vehicle with marijuana inside nearby. We then removed the marijuana in the bag and left the bag there hoping someone would come back and pick it up,” the sheriff said.

Blakely said investigators observed the vehicle Turner was arrested in drive by the home slowly several times, but the driver, who they believed to be Redus, did not stop. Then a little later, he said another vehicle approached, stopped, and someone jumped out and grabbed the bag and took off.

Curnutt gave chase and stopped that vehicle a short time later at Bay Hill Marina.

Blakely said two suspects inside the vehicle jumped out and ran. In the vehicle authorities found a cell phone belonging to Brent Russell Williams, 18, of 15804 Evans Road, Athens, who was later taken into custody.

“Williams has admitted that Redus called him and a 17-year-old juvenile and asked them to go by and get the dope that they had thrown out of the car when Josh got in behind them. We arrested the two on charges of conspiring to commit trafficking in marijuana. We have warrants out for Redus and Turner charging each with felony trafficking. Williams and the juvenile have been released on $5,000 bond.