So mushrooms is a felony in Arkansas. >> Felony? Really? >> Yeah. >> On Tuesday, April 29th, 2025, an officer conducted a traffic stop near 9,615 I30 Frontage Road in Little Rock, Arkansas. What began as a stop for traffic violations quickly escalated after officers searched the vehicle and discovered suspected drugs. Hey man, how's it going? I'm officer no pity. Took me a while to catch up to you. Uh, one, your vehicle, it doesn't show have any insurance on it. >> It had just left and that's why I'm out sparking trying to get the money to reco, but I can show you the text of this where it just slapped. >> Okay, that's fine. You got a you got an ID on you? >> Yes, sir. >> No, you know your license suspended, right? >> Yes, sir. I'm trying to get that handled. Um, I'm on child support. I got six daughters. I'm doing the best I can. I'm I'm really trying. >> All right. All right, man. Just hang out for me. All right. All right, man. Hey, go ahead. Turn around for me. You're not under arrest right now, but you're being detained. All right. Put your hands behind your back. What did I do? I'll >> explain it to you just a second. Listen. Just listen to me. I'll explain to you in just a second. All right. >> Listen, you possibly got a warrant out of out of North Rock. >> You ain't got nothing on you? >> No, sir. >> All right. >> Somebody on the phone. >> Yes, sir. >> All right. >> I do a call back. >> Trying to pull up. That's why I was trying. >> Pull up here. >> Yeah. Don't pull up. Tell them to pull up real quick. >> You can't get my truck. >> N they're not going to let me get my truck. Hello. They don't want me to pull up. >> 132. I got one thing. >> Hey, we batt him down. I'm going uh I'm going to check his truck car. >> So, you said ain't nothing in your car? >> No, sir. >> Why does it smell like weed, man? >> Because I I I smoke weed. So, >> when how long ago you smoking it? >> I That's been early this morning. >> All right. That was before I started sparking and I was smoking my car because my keys are in the house. So I said I was I my car. >> You got a card? >> Huh? >> You got a medical marijuana card or anything? >> No. >> All right. Stay back here. Right here with this office 132 log vehicle search. trying to do better. This a must road. >> Are you his wife? >> All right. He's going to jail. >> All right. So, he had a warrant out of North Fitter Rock. Uh-huh. The man came and issued the uh side house with a new court. >> He's not going to jail for North Florida. He's going to jail on my charges. >> What's What's my charges? >> Uh he has mushroom, but it's a felony. >> So, he's got felony charge there. >> No insurance on the vehicle. He's driving on suspended. >> Yeah, it laughs today. I I know that part. Uh-huh. >> Uh but he's driving on suspended. >> Mhm. >> Uh the the car is getting towed. Okay. But he's going to jail. He's going to swing county. Okay. >> All right. So, as soon as he gets booked in, he'll be able to call you. >> All right. >> Okay. Can you make Can you um You got pencil paper. Make sure cuz I have a new number. Can you make sure he had it? >> Yeah. Give me a second and I and uh let me get my pad and I'll write it down for you. >> Okay. Thank you. >> And that's your number? >> Yeah. >> I'm just going to put wife. >> Yeah, that's fine. >> He He'll know who I'm talking about. >> Okay. Do you know if they're going to tow his truck that way or down here? >> Nuke him. It'll probably be Seline. >> Okay. Okay. Thank you. >> All right. Yes, ma'am. Hey, man. Do you want your wallet? I got your ID, but do you want your wallet? You got anything in there you want to take? >> Or do you want to give it to your wife before she gets too far? >> Uh, give it to my wife. Y'all take me to jail? >> Yeah. So, mushrooms is a felony in Arkansas. >> Felony? Really? >> Yeah. >> Come on, man. That's going to like >> But I get it. But you're in possession of it, brother. >> There ain't nothing I can do about it, man. >> You can't help me. You can't help me. It's a >> You're not going I'm I'm giving you a court date for North Florida. >> I know, but you you giving me you taking me to jail for a month. Please, man. I I got six daughters, man. I understand that, man. Y'all know how there ain't nothing I do about it. >> Give me a chance for my CNA. Just let me crush it. I just bro ain't nothing I do about it, brother. I'm sorry. >> My career. That's all I have. I don't have nothing else to take care of six kids, man. >> I I get that. But you you got the money to buy mushrooms and your weed, >> man. This this stuff come out the ground, brother. I can pick that out my backyard and and dry them up. You don't even have to buy those. Like, please, brother. I have a kid that like, hey, you can look at my phone, brother. I have six daughters. This is the only career I have. I'm trying my best. Just please give me a chance or something, brother. Give me a break. I'm really trying here. And if I see it, it's going to be gone. >> Well, you know, >> going to be like, come on now. Making $142 an hour for six kids. >> Like, well, man, at the end of the day, there's I can't turn the blind out of that. >> You I understood, but can you do something else? Please, just >> No, I have to take you to jail. >> I I understand, but can you give me a lesser charge or something? A felony? They going to take away my CNA license, brother. Like I'm making I'm only making >> Well, you're you're not guilty until proven guilty in the court. >> Understood. But if I do, then they take it. And I that's the career I have. Like I had six kids, brother. Like if they stop my CNA license, you know how hard it's going to be able to take care of six kids on 14, 12, $14, >> man. Well, and I'm not trying to sound like an ass, but maybe you should make better life choices. >> I got six kids. How? But like >> Okay. So what what why you out here eating on mushrooms and stuff? >> I need sometimes I need the release, man. Like do you six do daughters, not six sons, six girls, six girls screaming, crying. They not even over 13 yet. None of them. >> All of them are under 13. I'm not even got to the teenage stage. I'm growing gray hair, pulling my hair out trying to do this. And I'm I'm being a man and staying. So many men run away through doing this, brother. So many men run away and I got six daughters and I'm staying doing it. It is driving me to the ground to the point that sometimes I go into depression. I have to talk to people just to try to keep my mind right for six kids, man. It's so hard. And people is not Don't nobody give me a break out of here. Especially being a black man. Don't nobody give me a break. Like not a not a single inch. Look at my Look at my [ __ ] I mean, who's to say? I mean, the prosecutor may drop it. Like I say, for no more than what it is, the prosecutor may drop it. So, we'll see. >> Huh? >> I just told her he's going to jail. And uh so they was in that backpack in the jar. And so so I got possession of the mushrooms and then possession of the weed uh plus traffic charges. So uh you going you going to wait on the tow truck? Following the vehicle search, officers arrested the driver after allegedly discovering suspected psilocybin mushrooms and marijuana inside the vehicle. He was taken into custody and transported to jail where the case continued through the booking process. Based on the conduct observed in this body camera footage, the following charges could apply. Possession of a schedule one controlled substance, psilocybin mushrooms, felony. Possession of marijuana, driving on a suspended driver's license. Operating a motor vehicle without insurance. Potential charges are presented forformational purposes only and may differ from the final charges filed by prosecutors. All individuals are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of