ASHLAND CITY, Tenn. (WKRN) -- Ashland City authorities arrested a Nashville father and son last week after discovering cocaine in a fast food container.
On Friday, Nov. 15, members of the Ashland City Police Department stopped a vehicle because of a dark window tint. Joseph Tibbs Jr., 24, was driving, and his father, 72-year-old Joseph Tibbs Sr., was in the passenger seat.
Body camera footage shows the entire traffic stop.
"You ever been in trouble in Sumner County?" an officer asked.
A records check on the driver landed Joseph Tibbs Jr. in handcuffs for an outstanding warrant out of Sumner County.
"You're on probation for felony possession of cocaine," the officer pointed out.
News 2 checked with the the Tennessee Department of Correction (DOC). It turned out that Joseph Tibbs Jr. was convicted of forgery and cocaine possession in 2023, but he was put on probation.
Officer: "Do you have anything in there at all? No marijuana?"
Joseph Tibbs Jr.: "I don't smoke. We were just literally leaving Hillcrest rehabilitation to see my mom. She's in hospice. That's where we was coming from."
Officer: "Do you have any marijuana? Any cocaine?"
Joseph Tibbs Jr.: "No, I don't smoke none of that now."
Officer: "You got no coke on you?"
Joseph Tibbs Jr.: "No."
Officer: "No methamphetamine?"
Joseph Tibbs Jr.: "No."
Officer: "No heroin?"
Joseph Tibbs Jr.: "No."
A search of the car yielded a chicken nugget container that also had a rock of cocaine. The bag was found on the passenger side floorboard.
The officer described to his partner how he found the 6-gram rock of cocaine: "I got down in here. Dude, I just had, like, an intuition. I keep looking, dude. I pop this open and it was stuffed right here, and he was eating that whenever I walked up here, and that other dude in the back just lied straight to our face: 'I don't do that no more.'"
Police read both men their rights and then asked them to whom the cocaine belonged. The father and son denied knowing about the drugs in the bag.
Officer: "It's in that Hardee's bag."
Joseph Tibbs Sr.: "I just bought that Hardee's bag!"
Joseph Tibbs Jr.: "We just literally got that down the road."
Officer: "And y'all think somebody put crack cocaine in your Hardee's bag? No, I watched y'all eat it; one of y'all handed it off or put it in there. Nobody just puts crack in Hardee's, okay?"
Joseph Tibbs Sr.: "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no."
Officer: "So nobody wants to claim it?"
Joseph Tibbs Jr.: "We literally just grabbed it."
Joseph Tibbs Sr.: "We just bought it."
Officer: "Y'all just think I'm brand new, huh?"
Joseph Tibbs Sr.: "You think we're brand new because we didn't have no, I don't do drugs!"
Officer: "So nobody?"
Joseph Tibbs Jr.: "I don't do drugs. None of us had any drugs on us. We literally just got that bag."
Officer: "Okay, well y'all are both going to jail for possession of crack cocaine."
Since neither man admitted to owning the cocaine, both were arrested.
Joseph Tibbs Jr. -- who has a hold out of Sumner County -- is still in the Cheatham County Jail on a $19,500 bond. The 24-year-old has been charged with possession with intent to sell and deliver a Schedule II controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, simple possession of marijuana, and driving on a revoked license.
Meanwhile, Joseph Tibbs Sr. was released from jail on an $18,500 bond. The 72-year-old was also charged with possession with intent to sell and deliver a Schedule II controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, and simple possession of marijuana.