Neighborhood Search for Suspect Ends with Bonus Marijuana Find for Officer

</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[A Du Quoin police officer scouring the East South Street neighborhood at 4 a.m. Tuesday morning for a man suspected of creating a disturbance at a residence threw back a cover on a pickup truck looking for the man only to discover a cache of marijuana plants.

Assistant Chief of Police Jamie Ellermeyer said officer Tim Goodman--the city's newest officer--found both the suspect he was looking for (Brian Galliher) and arrested Carl G. Hottes of 317 East Franklin Street for illegal marijuana possession, as well.

At 4:11 a.m. officer Goodman got a call in the 300 block of East South Street that Galliher had left on foot to the north after the disturbance. Officer Goodman proceeded on foot to search for the man. "As he was canvassing the area he entered on the property of Carl G. Hottes, 317 East Franklin," according to Ellermeyer. While searching the backyard he found a box of marijuana plants and later discovered more plants, grow lights and marijuana processing paraphernalia inside the Hottes home.

Galliher faces alcohol and resisting arrest charges. Hottes not only has to answer to the felony marijuana charges, but is the subject of a similar charge in Jackson County from last December.