Security Forces airmen nab man with drugs at Hurlburt Field
Okaloosa County FL April 25 2019
A Georgia truck driver remained in Okaloosa County Jail on a drug charge Monday after Security Forces airmen at Hurlburt Field discovered a single ecstasy pill — and more than $32,000 in prop money initially suspected to be counterfeit bills — in his truck during a routine security search at the base’s commercial gate on Friday morning.
Hurlburt Field is headquarters of Air Force Special Operations Command.
Don Edward Smith, 63, of Macon, was arrested early Friday afternoon by one of the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputies called to the base by Security Forces personnel after the pill and other items were discovered lying on the seat of Smith’s truck. Smith remained in jail Monday under a $1,500 bond on a charge of possessing a controlled substance without a prescription, according to information from the Okaloosa County Department of Corrections.
According to a Sheriff’s Office report, the Ecstasy pill was discovered in a prescription pill bottle with Smith’s name on it. A field test confirmed that the pill was a dose of the psychoactive drug, the report noted. Also discovered in the truck was another pill bottle with its label torn off, along with “multiple other pill bottles, and a large amount of suspected counterfeit bills.”
The Sheriff’s Office report listed Smith as a supervisor with Best Value Management, a Jacksonville, Florida, government construction contractor.
