October 29, 2018
By: Dwayne Page
After being called to the Dowelltown Post Office last Tuesday on a suspicious person complaint, a deputy found a man there with drugs on him.
33 year old Joshua Lynn McCowan of Lavergne Street, Alexandria is charged with simple possession of schedule I & IV drugs. He is under a $3,000 bond and his court date is November 18.
Sheriff Patrick Ray said that on Tuesday, October 23 a deputy was dispatched to a suspicious man sitting inside the Post Office in Dowelltown. The officer confronted the man, McCowan, and he agreed to submit to a pat down search which turned up 3.68 grams of psilocybin (mushrooms) in his jacket sleeve Also in his sleeve was a Tylenol bottle which contained seven alprazolam bars and two pills of the same drug.