CLAY COUNTY, N.C. — A Georgia man is back in custody after he was found in the bed of a truck with loaded weapons.
Last month, investigators pulled over a truck in Clay County, North Carolina because they appeared to be spotlighting the deer they were hunting, which is against the law.
Authorities with the sheriff’s office and the U.S. Forest Service found three men inside the truck and 29-year-old James Brandon Taylor, from Dallas, Georgia, in the bed of the truck.
Taylor had a loaded crossbow with him and a flashlight in his lap. When he was asked to stand up, a sawed-off shotgun fell out of the back of his pants.
He admitted to being a convicted felon on probation for possession of methamphetamine. When he was searched at the jail, deputies found more meth.
Taylor was arrested and taken to the Clay County Detention Center where he was charged with possession of a firearm by a felon, possession of a weapon of mass destruction and possession of methamphetamine on jail premises.
There is no word on the status of the spotlighting deer investigation.