Warrant, cocaine lead to job-seeker's arrest

[November 21, 2008]  JACKSON, Mich. (AP) -- A mid-Michigan man who'd been looking for work found trouble after an arrest warrant popped up during a background check at a police station. Police also found cocaine in his pocket. The company the man was applying to required a police background check.

The Jackson Citizen Patriot reported that after running the 29-year-old man's name through their computer system Wednesday, police learned he was wanted on a domestic violence charge.

Deputy Police Chief John Holda said that while searching him at the station, an officer found several rocks of cocaine.

The man was being held in the county jail and will be arraigned on the domestic violence charge and possession with intent to deliver cocaine.

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Information from: Jackson Citizen Patriot, http://www.mlive.com/citpat/

[Associated Press]

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