{"id":297279,"date":"2026-06-05T15:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/297279\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T15:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:15:07","slug":"driver-tried-to-ditch-bag-of-marijuana-turning-stop-into-dui-case-pslpd-bodycam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/297279\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver tried to ditch bag of marijuana, turning stop into DUI case: PSLPD bodycam"},"content":{"rendered":"

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 What started as a domestic disturbance call ended with a DUI arrest<\/a> after police say a driver tried – and failed – to get rid of evidence during a traffic stop.<\/p>\n

The incident was all caught on camera. <\/p>\n

The Port St. Lucie Police Department <\/a>said it responded to the call on May 30 and quickly spotted the vehicle involved as it was leaving the area. A sergeant began following the pickup truck, but it didn\u2019t take long for things to escalate.<\/p>\n

According to police, the driver struggled to stay in his lane, at one point nearly hitting a mailbox. Then, in a move officers say only made matters worse, the driver allegedly tossed a bag of marijuana out the window while being followed.<\/p>\n

Officers quickly recovered the bag, and the situation shifted into a DUI investigation.<\/p>\n

Police say they learned the driver had been drinking prior to the incident. After going through field sobriety exercises, the driver – identified as 49-year-old David Ward – was taken into custody.<\/p>\n

See also: 92 animals neglected, buried horse found in shallow grave leads to woman’s arrest: Sheriff<\/a><\/p>\n

Ward now faces several charges, including driving under the influence, refusing to submit to DUI testing, possession of less than 20 grams of marijuana, and tampering with evidence.<\/p>\n

He was booked into the St. Lucie County<\/a> Jail without incident.<\/p>\n

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Police added that trying to get rid of evidence during a stop usually has the opposite effect, drawing even more attention rather than avoiding trouble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 What started as a domestic disturbance call ended with a DUI arrest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-297279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}