Strong odor in car leads to marijuana bricks, arrest

An Indiana man found sleeping in his car was taken into custody Monday after a Yavapai County Sheriff's deputy smelled a strong odor of marijuana and eventually found nearly a dozen bricks of the drug inside the vehicle, authorities said.

William Wilkinson, 54, told authorities he stopped to rest on his way back to Indiana from Phoenix, according to the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office. The vehicle was found off the roadway at the Coldwater Road on-ramp to the Interstate 17 on Thursday.

When asked about the odor, Wilkinson apparently said that his brother, whom he had been visiting, "had smoked a joint" in the car earlier that day, according to a sheriff's department press release. When the deputy said the odor was particularly strong, Wilkinson said that his brother had smoked "two joints."