ALLIANCE, Ohio -- A man who got a police officer's help to find a bit of marijuana lost in his yard was charged with misdemeanor drug abuse. The patrolman's body-camera video shows an intoxicated man admitting he lost the drug. The officer says he doesn't want children to find it, then locates it in the grass. The man asks whether he'd throw it back on the ground. The officer refuses. Police said the officer had found the man stumbling along the road and tried to get him home safely.
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