By Pat Culverhouse

Driving a vehicle with a black trash bag covering the rear window and dark tint on others aroused suspicions of a Springhill police officer and led to a drug arrest Saturday.

Officer Amanda Hamilton also noticed the vehicle had a temporary license tag with no registration number and initiated a traffic stop around 8:30 a.m. Saturday. The driver, 60-year-old Robert A. Taylor of Springhill, reportedly admitted to the officer his drivers license had been suspended.

After the suspect was taken into custody and placed in the rear of Hamilton’s police unit, he later complained the handcuffs were too tight.

When the suspect reportedly stepped from the unit to have the handcuffs adjusted, Officer Hamilton allegedly spotted a clear plastic bag on the vehicle’s floor near his feet. Reportedly inside the bag was 22.09 grams of suspected cocaine.

Taylor is charged with driving under suspension and possession of CDS Sch. II (cocaine) with intent to distribute. Bond has been set at $51,000.

This information has been provided by a law enforcement agency as public information. Persons named as suspects in a criminal investigation, or arrested and charged with a crime, have not been convicted of any criminal offense and are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.