By Bonnie Culverhouse

A south Webster man was stopped for speeding by Minden Police Monday and subsequently arrested on multiple charges.

Arzie Delane Jones, 70, of 400 Buttonwood Rd., Heflin, is charged with resisting an officer, drug paraphernalia and two warrants for Bienville Parish.

Minden Police Chief Jared McIver said Lt. Chris Hammontree stopped Jones’ vehicle on Martin Luther King Drive around 5:30 p.m. for traveling 36 miles per hour in a 15 mile-per-hour zone.

“All the occupants of the vehicle seemed nervous to Lt. Hammontree,” McIver said. “A check showed the back seat passenger, identified as Lane Jones, had an active warrant through Bienville Parish Sheriff’s Office.”

When Jones was searched, officers located a used crack pipe in his pants pocket.

“During booking, it was determined that Lane Jones’ real name was Arze Delano Jones, and he had another active warrant under that name,” said the chief. “During the stop, backseat passenger Terry Jones lit a cigarette and began smoking with two small children in the vehicle.”

Jones, 64, of the 100 block of St. Rest St., Minden, was arrested for drug paraphernalia (crack pipe also found on person) and two counts of smoking in a vehicle with children present.

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