A midday incident on Highway 278 near Grady Road saw a driver who was reported to 911 stopped by police, forced from their truck at gunpoint after being uncooperative, and ultimately was found with methamphetamine in the vehicle, according to Polk County Police reports.

Officers arrested Justin McNeil, 35, of a Douglasville address on Thursday, February 23 around lunchtime when he was reported by a driver for being erratic on the roadway, unable to maintain their lane in a truck with drive out tags.

Police didn’t take long to find the truck and pulled McNeil over at the intersection of 278 and Grady Road.

“I made contact with the driver who was shirtless, covered in sweat and made rapid hand movements. The weather at the time was cloudy around 70-75 degrees,” the report noted.

Police asked McNeil to get out of the truck believing that he was impaired based on many things, including a “plastic straw, approx 4″ in length, on the floorboard.”

The reporting officer asked McNeil to get out of the truck several times, and he refused asking for an explanation why he was stopped. When the officer removed the keys from the ignition and threw them to the ground, McNeil tried to grab them.

Then McNeil quickly turned to try to reach into the center console, and was greeted by the officer pulling his gun and ordering him out of the truck when police believed McNeil might be going for his own weapon.

McNeil cooperated at this point, and was detained without further incident on his part.

Police got a K-9 officer out to the scene, who sniffed around the vehicle and a further search was made within the truck. Police grabbed the straw that was in the floorboard, as it was suspected to have meth on it. Another was found in the center console.

McNeil was searched, and inside a cigarette pack officers found a small green bag of suspected meth wrapped in a now-or-later wrapper.

Polk County Police charged McNeil with felonies for possession of methamphetamine and possession of tools for commission of a crime, and misdemeanors for failure to maintain lane, reckless driving and obstruction of law enforcement officers.

He was being held without bond set as of this posting.