The rock in his possession ‘was not crack,’ he told police who stopped him for loitering

“It was not crack. He just bought it, tried to smoke it and it wasn’t crack,” the man arrested for loitering told police, who found a crack pipe on him early Sunday morning, according to an incident report.

Myrtle Beach police stopped 35-year-old Tony Nevail Myers, who was walking in the middle of Yaupon Drive, around 3:30 a.m. Officers said they had seen him walking the strip several times throughout the night with different people and that he “matched the description of a known drug dealer in the area,” according to the report.

Myers, of Myrtle Beach, was charged with loitering for drug trafficking and being a pedestrian on a highway.

As he was being searched during his arrest, police say they found drug paraphernalia on Myers, including a “crack pipe, push rod and beat rock” (slang for fake crack), according to the report.

This story was originally published July 3, 2017 at 9:51 AM with the headline "The rock in his possession ‘was not crack,’ he told police who stopped him for loitering."