VERO BEACH — A traffic stop for dark window tint lead to the arrest of 37-year-old Indian River County man Henry Chambliss on Sunday, according to the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office.
The traffic stop escalated to the arrest after drugs and paraphernalia were found in his vehicle and a bag of crack cocaine was removed from his buttocks, according to the report.
Chambliss first provided the officer who initiated the traffic stop with false identification information, according to authorities. The officer determined the information to be untrue, identified the driver as Chambliss, and arrested him on a felony charge of driving with a suspended license, habitual.
After receiving permission by Chambliss to search the vehicle, the officer reported two white rocks in plain view on the driver’s seat, and another on the passenger side of the vehicle, according to the Sheriff’s Office. All three pieces tested positive for the presence of cocaine. An aluminum can with a hole punched in the side of it was discovered in the glove compartment. The officer observed the can had likely been used to smoke crack cocaine.
Chambliss became nervous, according to the report, after hearing about the drugs found in the vehicle and learning he would undergo an x-ray after being transported to the county jail.
“The defendant then informed me that he had a baggie in his butt crack that contained drugs,” the officer wrote in his report. “A small tied up plastic sandwich bag was then removed from the defendant’s crack. Inside this bag I observed several small white rocks.”
The white rocks removed from the baggie also tested positive for the presence of cocaine, according to authorities.
Chambliss is being held without bond and faces multiple charges including, violation of probation felony offense, felony possession of a controlled substance, misdemeanor possession drug paraphernalia, misdemeanor give false name while detained, and felony drive with suspended license habitual, according to the report.
