Brandon Woodruff mugshotFormer District 28 state House candidate Brandon Woodruff was arrested on gun and drug charges Saturday night.
Woodruff, 26, was pulled over shortly after 9:15 p.m. on E. 37th Street for allegedly crossing the center line several times while driving a vehicle with an expired registration, according to an arrest affidavit.
The officer smelled a ‘strong odor of air freshener (cherry),’ according to the affidavit. Woodruff allegedly held up a bottle BluntPower branded air freshener and said he had just sprayed it.
When asked, Woodruff told the officer there was a gun in the glove box. The officer had Woodruff and a female passenger get out of the car while another officer searched the vehicle.
The officers found a partially smoked blunt, the loaded gun in the glove box, another loaded gun in a duffel bag, a box containing ‘a baggie with weed residue’ and $867 in cash, according to the affidavit.