Warren man faces drug charges after traffic stop

May 28, 2015 at 9:34a.m.

YOUNGSTOWN — A man who was a passenger in a car pulled over for an equipment violation about 3:35 p.m. Wednesday at Mahoning and Millett avenues possessed 53 pills, police said.

Reports said the officers found the pills in the pants of Ruben Best, 22, of Willa Anna Court NW in Warren. Best also had something police said was marijuana paste. Best told police he smoked the paste in a vapor cigarette, reports said.

Best was arrested and taken to the Mahoning County jail on charges of possession of drugs, illegal use or possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of drugs marijuana.