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Illegal pills, pot seized during Hancock Co. traffic stop
Posted: 02.15.2013 at 4:14 PM
Kevin Kistner

Kevin is the Senior Producer at WNWO.

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Drugs seized in Hancock Co.  / OHP
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FINDLAY -- Two Kentucky men are locked up in the Hancock County Jail after they were busted with drugs on I-75.

State troopers pulled over a car with Kentucky registration Thursday around 5pm for following too closely.

The patrol says the driver give them permission to search the vehicle.

That's when they found a gram scale with drug residue and a bottle containing 29 Xanax pills and one Lortab pill underneath the front seat.

Troopers also discovered three bags of marijuana weighing 1.5 pounds in the trunk.

The drugs have a street value of $5,000.

The driver, Jimmy Brock, 31, and passenger, Joseph P. Lowell, 29, both of Gray, Kentucky are facing felony drug charges.,

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