A Greeneville man was arrested Monday for public intoxication and drug possession after allegedly asking customers for money at Dollar General Market on West Andrew Johnson Highway.
An officer with the Greeneville Police Department was dispatched to the store around 8:30 PM after an employee reported that a man asked several customers for money. The officer told the man, identified as Caleb M. Hensley of East Brad Street, that he was asked to leave the property. Hensley then said he was going to get a ride with a woman who was sitting in a car near him. The officer asked the woman if Hensley was going to ride with her. She said she had no idea who Hensley was and he had not even spoken to her.
Hensley was talking incoherently, according to the report. Two boxes of pastries that had been stolen from the store were found in his pants. An uncapped syringe was found in his back pocket, along with a small baggie of a pink powdery substance that was identified as pressed pills with fentanyl.
Hensley was transported to the Greene County Detention Center for public intoxication, possession of a schedule 2 drug, and possession of drug paraphernalia.
