Man arrested after K-9 search turns up drugs, gun

MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Bibb County Sheriff’s deputies were patrolling Harrison Road Friday at 2 a.m. when they saw a suspicious person sitting in a Honda Civic at America’s Best Inn.

Deputies identified the man as 30-year-old Kartrell Rashawn Sirmons.

While talking to Sirmons, they noticed he had three phones. Then, deputies deployed K-9 deputy Stormi to search the vehicle where she found drugs.

Deputies also found the following: 

• a mint tin with several pills in it
• a black bag under the child safety seat with more pills
• a pistol

Authorities determined that 31 pills were Ecstasy.

The charge

Deputies took Sirmons to the Bibb County Jail and charged him with the following: 

• Possession of Schedule I or II Controlled Substance
• Possession of Firearm During the Commission of a Felony
• Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon

He is being held without bond at this time.