Officers with the Intelligence Led Policing Unit (ILP) and the Gang Intervention Team (GIT) of the North Charleston Police Department (NCPD) arrested a wanted North Charleston man Friday on multiple drug charges.
According to police, detectives were investigating an incident on March 6 in the 2100 block of Cosgrove Avenue, in the Chicora-Cherokee community, when surveillance cameras showed a man fleeing a crime scene with a backpack. The man was later identified as 36-year-old Wakeen V. Lewis.
Police say Lewis was seen running from another location on Cosgrove Avenue after shots were fired. When he appeared again on camera, he no longer had the backpack.
Detectives searched the area and found the backpack in a trash can. Inside, they discovered several suspected narcotics, including:
- 805 grams of green plant material that tested presumptively as marijuana
- 103 grams of white powder that tested presumptively as cocaine
- 8 grams of an off-white rock-like substance that tested presumptively as cocaine base
- 24 grams of mushrooms that tested presumptively as psilocybin (magic mushrooms)
On Friday shortly after 11:30 a.m., officers located Lewis in the 4300 block of Ladson Road after receiving information that he was staying at an apartment complex there.
Police observed Lewis walking toward a vehicle he was known to drive. As he entered the driver’s seat, officers approached and placed him under arrest.
Lewis is charged with:
- Possession of Cocaine Base
- Trafficking Cocaine
- Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance
- Possession with Intent to Distribute Marijuana
He was transported to the Al Cannon Detention Center.
