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Pickup with no plates leads to drug arrest
Updated: August 21, 2010, 1:11 AM
A Folger Street man faces a drug charge after South District police officers caught him smoking crack cocaine near the Buffalo&Erie County Botanical Gardens shortly before 8 p. m. Tuesday, police said.
Brian L. Skinner, 43, was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance as well as a traffic violation after Officers Paul Roberts and James Reese observed his pickup with no license plate.
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