By Pat Culverhouse

A Dallas, Texas man is currently residing in a Louisiana lockup following his Saturday arrest in Minden’s downtown area on multiple drug charges.

De’Audrick Gill, 23, stopped his vehicle near the intersection of Pearl and Main streets for a traffic violation just after 7:30 p.m. He was taken into custody when officers found a number of illegal narcotics and weapons inside the vehicle he was driving, Chief of Police Jared McIver said.

“After the stop, Sgt. Chris Cayer and Officer Branthony Brown asked the passenger in the vehicle to open that side’s door and when it opened, a small plastic bag of marijuana fell out,” McIver said. “Mr. Gill told the officers that more narcotics plus two firearms were inside, and that everything belonged to him.”

Inside the vehicle, officers found a bag containing 4.73 ounces of individually bagged marijuana, two bottles of promethazine with codeine, two bottles of Xanax with 40 dosage units and scales. 

“Our officers also found two 9MM handguns under the driver’s seat,” McIver said. “The suspect was taken into custody without incident.”

Gill is currently being held in the Bayou Dorcheat Correctional Center on charges of possession of CDS Sch. I (marijuana) with intent to distribute, possession of CDS Sch. II (Xanax) with intent to distribute, possession of CDS Sch. V (Promethazine) with intent to distribute, illegal possession of a firearm near CDS and possession of drug paraphernalia plus a traffic violation.

McIver said Gill is also the subject of two bench warrants.

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