A pair of traffic stops – one in the evening on Wednesday, and another early on Thursday morning – saw two men arrested on drug possession, and one specifically for trafficking charges, according to Polk County Police reports.

The first of those arrests came after 11 p.m. when police got behind Robert Wayne Hubbard, 51, of 120 Oak Hollow Way, Aragon, and stayed there after he was riding along the far right side of the roadway in front of Arby’s.

The reporting officer followed him until he reached Highway 101 at Marquette Road where the officer watched again as Hubbard failed to maintain the lane, and pulled him over.

Hubbard was reported to be sweating profusely despite the air conditioning on his 1997 Mercury Marquis was “on full blast” and was shaking when he handed his license over during the initial traffic stop.

Police reported that his nervous behavior and the fact he smelled like marijuana gave them a reason to be suspicious he might be carrying drugs and asked to search the vehicle and got permission after additional officers arrived on the scene. He told the police without being asked that he was working all day and was returning home.

According to police, the search yielded a joint inside a pack of cigarettes and when presented with it claimed it was his. Police also found a ledger that gave them a reason to believe that his story he had been working all day wasn’t true, and he admitted then that he had a drug problem and had been with his girlfriend all day instead of at work and the joint had been hers. Police took Hubbard into custody at this point.

Per the police, a further search of his person yielded methamphetamine found in a container in his shoe along with a half tablet of Xanax, which Hubbard admitted to using regularly. When officers asked if he had any more on his person, Hubbard told officers he had stuffed a bag of the drug into his underwear. Officers allowed him briefly to be uncuffed to pull it out before he was taken onward to jail.

Bond had not yet been set on charges against Hubbard, which included possession of heroin, possession of a schedule IV controlled substance, and possession of methamphetamine.

Of note, police did not immediately explain the discovery of heroin which led to the charge in their report.