Police hear the excuse all the time.

When people are being patted down after a stop and officers find illegal substances on them or in their vehicle, they often say it doesn’t belong to them.

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While anything is possible, officers are skeptical when they hear these types of excuses.

One notable example of that occurred shortly after 3 p.m. Feb. 7 when police noticed a 39-year-old Wyandotte man traveling on his bike, going the wrong direction on Fort Street.

According to police, he was traveling south in the northbound lanes of Fort Street, causing several vehicles to break abruptly. He continued going south, in the left lane of northbound Fort, then rode across Fort to eastbound Oak Street. Officers conducted a stop on Oak at 22nd Street.

After being told why he was stopped, the man explained to police that he was merely trying to get across the road. He verbally identified himself and agreed to a patdown search for weapons.

During the search, an officer felt a small object inside the small front pocket of his pants. The officer asked the man what it was, and he replied that he didn’t know.

Inside the pocket police found a folded lottery ticket, commonly used for packaging narcotics. The officer asked the man if the bindle in the pocket contained fentanyl.

“These are not my pants,” the man replied. “I borrowed them from my cousin.”

The substance inside the bindle field-tested positive for fentanyl and heroin.

The officer removed the bindle and arrested him for possession of heroin/fentanyl, which is a felony.

During booking, police found $311 cash in the man’s possession.