SUWANNEE COUNTY, Fla. (WTXL) - Police say a search of a Live Oak hotel room led them to discover nearly 400 grams of bath salts, several grams of synthetic marijuana and multiple guns.
The Live Oak Police Department said that on Tuesday they were conducting an investigation near the Royal Inn Hotel when dispatch called to tell officers that two men had been spotted with guns in public.
Dispatch told officers that the suspects were in one of the rooms of the hotel and were seen with the guns by an anonymous witness.
Police officers went up to the room and spoke with Kenneth Cooks Jr. and Thomas Barnes Jr..
They noted that as the two men left the room, an officer saw Cooks with a synthetic marijuana (spice) cigarette and could smell the odor of spice coming from inside the room.
Cooks and Barnes were detained, according to LOPD, and officers searched the hotel room, finding more than 373 grans of alpha-PVP (i.e. "Flakka or Bath Salts), more than 13 grams of spice, a rifle, a semi-automatic handgun, and several rounds of ammo.
Both men were arrested on drug and weapons charges before being transported to the Suwannee County Jail. Both have been convicted of felony crimes in the past.
LOPD says that Cooks and Barnes are also persons of interest in an ongoing robbery investigation, though no charges have been filed in that case yet.
