Galesburg Police on Saturday morning (January 29th) conducted a traffic stop on North Academy Street on a Lincoln sedan where officers observed the male driver not wearing a seat belt. Officers made contact with the driver: 38-year old George Sutton Jr. of Galesburg. Sutton admitted to officers he didn’t have insurance on the vehicle. Officers were informed Sutton was on Mandatory Supervised Release via the Illinois Department of Corrections. Sutton was informed that as a condition of his parole officers would be conducting a search of him and his vehicle – since it is registered to him, and Sutton was cooperative. Inside his vehicle, officers located a small baggie containing three tablets believed to be MDMA. The tablets later tested positive for Amphetamines. Sutton was transported to the Knox County Jail and charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance and cited for various traffic offenses.
