Man Found Sleeping In A Vehicle Charged With Drug Possession

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A Hopkinsville man was charged with drug possession after being found asleep in a vehicle on Peggy Lane in Hopkinsville on Friday morning.

Hopkinsville Police say they got out with a vehicle in a driveway after a call of a suspicious vehicle and located the driver, 45-year-old Roman Abate, asleep inside.

Officers could reportedly see a bag of meth as Abate got his wallet for them, and he claimed he thought he was in Pembroke at a church.

Police say he claimed he didn’t know there were drugs in the vehicle, or he would have hidden them in his body.

After a field sobriety test, he was arrested and charged with DUI and possession of meth.

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