After a Lilburn police officer stopped a driver to ask for help, he found two stolen guns, hundreds of pills and a large quantity of other drugs, Channel 2 Action News reported.

Albert Ross Simmons, 28, has been charged with eight felony drug offenses, two misdemeanor theft by receiving charges and one count of possessing a weapon during the commission of a felony.

Officer Almedin Ajanovic was patroling a Lilburn neighborhood where multiple car break-ins had recently occurred when he saw a man in a truck idling outside a house. He walked up to the car, intending to ask the man if he had seen anything out of the ordinary. When the driver rolled down the window, Ajanovic smelled the pungent odor of marijuana, he told Channel 2.

Ajanovic got Ross-Simmons out of the car, but saw Ross-Simmons try to kick a plastic container under his driver’s seat, Ajanovic told Channel 2. Ajanovic took the container, finding 206 ecstasy pills, 50 oxycodone pills, two bags of hallucinogenic mushrooms and marijuana. Police also found two stolen guns in a search of the car.

Ross-Simmons is being held at the Gwinnett County Detention Center on $49,300 bond.

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