Oak Ridge police investigating a suspicious fire in a basement on North Illinois Avenue on Wednesday say they found drugs—including what appeared to be 147 grams of marijuana, 23 grams of hashish, and 73 oxycodone pills—in a bedroom, living room, and basement.
Police arrested Rockford Scott Crabtree II, 23, of Oak Ridge, and charged him with eight counts of either possessing or intending to sell or deliver the drugs. He was also charged with possession of drug paraphernalia.
Crabtree remained in the Anderson County jail on Friday evening in lieu of $50,000 bond.
Oak Ridge Police Sgt. Matt Tedford said officers investigating the Wednesday morning fire found pills in a unlabeled prescription bottle on an end table in a living room at 212 N. Illinois Ave. They also found what appeared to be marijuana in clear plastic bags in plain view on a bed while they were evacuating residents from the home, Tedford wrote in an affidavit filed in Anderson County General Sessions Court.
More marijuana was allegedly found in plain view on the basement floor where the fire occurred, Tedford said.
Crabtree agreed to allow officers to search his bedroom, Tedford said, and they found more alleged marijuana, a substance that appeared to be hash, and assorted pills. And an officer found a small amount of what appeared to be methylethylcathinone in a plastic bag in plain view on a basement desk.
“Crabtree admitted that all of the controlled substances found in the house belonged to him,” Tedford said.
Officers also found 2.5 purported alprazolam pills and nine purported suboxone pills in a cigarette pack in a black-and-silver box in Crabtree’s bedroom, Tedford said. Crabtree admitted he kept those to give to his girlfriend when she needed them for withdrawals, Tedford said.
The drug paraphernalia allegedly included pipes, containers, grinders with marijuana residue, and a digital scale in Crabtree’s bedroom.
Crabtree has a court hearing scheduled at 9 a.m. Tuesday.
Oak Ridge Fire Chief Darryl Kerley said the Wednesday morning fire started when a woman reportedly fell asleep while smoking, and a couch in the basement caught on fire. She and another man put out the fire with buckets of water before the fire department arrived, Kerley said.
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