Suspect swallows entire baggie
FORT WALTON BEACH — He told a deputy the bulge in his mouth was just a wad of gum.
By the end of Saturday’s encounter, Okaloosa County Sheriff ’s Deputy Steve Weyer called Emergency Medical Services for 34-year-old Matthew Seale Mobley’s own good.
“I requested him to spit out the gum and show me and he began to vigorously chew and attempted to swallow the item,” Weyer wrote in his report.
Mobley of Mobile, Ala., managed to swallow the entire wad — whatever it was — before Weyer could test it.
Mobley was arrested anyway for tampering with and destroying evidence. He was also charged with resisting law enforcement without violence and knowingly driving on a suspended license.
Weyer noticed the cellophane baggie in Mobley’s mouth after a traffic stop, according to the report.
Witnesses saw white powdery residue around Mobley’s mouth, Weyer reported.