You know those fancy HID or neon accent lights you can have installed above your headlights? Cool, but illegal. They're also something that makes your car stand out to the police, as a UGA student recently learned the hard way.

When a university police officer noticed the student's vehicle with solid blue lights mounted above each headlight, he set off to ticket the driver for the prohibited lights. When he noted the driver was only going about 15 to 20 mph, the officer grew suspicious that more than a traffic violation might be at issue, and pulled the driver over near Boggs Hall.

According to the police report, when the officer questioned the young man about the blue lights, he smelled marijuana on the driver -- along with "extremely minty chewing gum."

The officer asked the student how much marijuana he had smoked. He "seemed to freeze for a moment, then he sighed and stated that he had smoked some [marijuana]," the report says.

The police officer then decided to search the vehicle. Inside the car, according to the report, the officer found a book bag belonging to a passenger, an 18-year-old student. Inside the book bag he found a "partially smoked marijuana cigarette" which the passenger admitted was his, the officer claims.

After conducting field sobriety tests on the driver, the officer determined the 20-year-old had been driving under the influence of drugs.

The two students were taken to the Clarke County Jail. The driver was charged with DUI and given a traffic ticket for driving with prohibited blue lights on his vehicle. The passenger was charged with possession of marijuana.

Source:

"Students arrested on drug charges" (Crime Notebook, The Red and Black, August 31, 2010)