A Lubbock, Texas, man is being held on a variety of charges – including drug, commercial truck, and immigration – following his arrest near Gainesville earlier this week by the Georgia State Patrol (GSP).
A state trooper says he arrested Miguel Lucena-Olivar, 44, after he stopped his box-type truck on Georgia 365 near Belton Bridge Road Thursday afternoon. The trooper says he stopped the truck because it did not have the proper USDOT number and company name on it.
Lucena-Olivar told the trooper he did not speak English and got his brother on the phone to translate for him. While interviewing the truck driver using his brother as a translator, the investigating trooper determined that this was not that first time he had been stopped for similar violations and that he did not have a driver’s license and other documentation he was required by law as a commercial truck driver to have.
Another trooper who had arrived at the scene administered breathalyzer test on Lucena-Olivar who, after failing the test, consented to a search of the truck by a drug-sniffing dog that had been brought to the scene. After the dog indicated that possible narcotics were on board the truck, the troopers found a TCH Vape pen, which is illegal in Georgia.
The truck was then impounded and Lucena-Olivar was taken to the Hall County Jail and charged with three counts of commercial vehicle violation, DUI, immigration violation, tag violation, and possession of a controlled substance.
He remained in jail early Saturday morning in lieu of bonds totaling $4,350.