Justin Blake Lee age 21 of Brookhollow Circle in Manchester was arrested Tuesday night by Coffee County Deputy Harmon Campbell. Lee was charged with; Criminal trespass, contraband in a penal institution, schedule II drug violations and resisting stop, halt, frisk, arrest or search (non-violent).
While on a routine perimeter check of the Coffee County Jail deputies saw a subject attempting to throw contraband over the fence at the jail. Deputies state that when they attempted to stop Lee and arrest him, he allegedly fled on foot. Deputies say that the man was told several times to stop. They go on to say in the arrest warrant that Lee ran into the woods near Volunteer Parkway in Manchester and was found there and placed under arrest. Deputies searched the packages Lee had allegedly attempted to throw over the jail fence and they say that they recovered a large amount of tobacco in two packages and when they opened the packages they discovered .33 grams of a crystal like substance believed to be schedule II methamphetamine inside of the bags of tobacco.
Lee was booked in at the Coffee County Jail under a bond of $70,000 and he has a court date of June 20, 2016.