Bowling Green Police Division arrested a Michigan man for trafficking in drugs and obstructing official business on Thursday.
Police received a call at 1:39 a.m. about two suspicious people in the parking lot of the Holiday Inn Express on East Wooster Street. Police questioned the pair, and the woman gave her real name, but the man gave a false name and said he didn’t have identification. As police were talking with the two, another car carrying friends of the pair arrived.
Police questioned those people, who accurately identified the first man as Brian Choate, 33, of Adrian, Michigan.
Police searched Choate’s pockets and found two zippered pouches. One contained several small plastic bags. Two of the bags reportedly held a white powdery substance and some of the others contained several solid pieces of white crystalline rocks. The other pouch contained one small bag of white powdery substance, several small plastic bags, a metal spoon and three straws. Choate reportedly admitted the white substance was methamphetamines.
Choate was placed in the back seat of a patrol car, and soon began to get sick. An ambulance was requested. Choate reportedly said that he had swallowed an unknown quantity of the drugs. The ambulance transported him to Wood County Hospital.
