Coke high ends with arrest of Birmingham man

On Tuesday, December 31, at approximately 6 a.m., Birmingham officers were dispatched to a gas station in the 34700 block of Woodward Avenue for a reported family dispute.

A 51-year-old Birmingham woman said that her husband took her cell phone after they bought and snorted cocaine, the remainder of which was in his vehicle.

The 56-year-old Birmingham man confirmed his wife’s statements and told police to check his trunk. There, officers found several containers of cocaine and cocaine paraphernalia.

They handcuffed the man, who repeatedly asked officers to collect his backpack from his vehicle. They did, and in it discovered a switchblade, a stun gun and pills in an unmarked prescription bottle.

The man was arrested and taken into custody.