When an employer went to look for keys left in an employee’s bag – with the employee’s permission, he found the keys. He also found a gun, cocaine and paraphernalia used to snort cocaine.

Alexander Thomas Wilson II, 24, Linton, was booked into the Greene County Jail at 3:38 p.m. last Friday, May 7, on a warrant that was issued for his arrest following an incident that occurred on Friday, April 30, investigated by Officer Adam King of the Linton Police Department.

Officer King was dispatched to a business on 3rd Street NW after the owner reported one of his employees had been involved in two accidents that day and was sent to Greene County General Hospital for a medical check. The employee, identified as Wilson, said he had left the keys to a company vehicle and equipment in a bag inside the vehicle so the owner went to look for the keys. He found the keys, but he also found drugs and a gun.

Officer King reported the bag contained a black semi-automatic Taurus G3 pistol, a container with two red straws and a white powdery substance, a rolled-up dollar bill, razor blades, a Ziploc bag with three green pills later identified as alprazolam which is a controlled substance also known as Xanax, and a glass container with a white powdery substance that field-tested positive as cocaine.

When Officer King talked to Wilson at the hospital, he allegedly confirmed the gun was his and was registered to him, that the straws and dollar bill were for snorting cocaine, that the pills were Xanax and that the white powdery substances were cocaine.

Wilson was not arrested that day but a criminal case was filed against him on May 4 and a warrant issued for his arrest.

Wilson was being held without bond pending court appearance earlier today, Tuesday, May 11. Wilson has since posted bond and been released from jail.

Wilson has been charged with:

• Possession of cocaine between five and 10 grams, a Level 5 felony,

• Possession of a controlled substance, a Class A misdemeanor, and

• Possession of paraphernalia, a Class C misdemeanor.