SHERIDAN TOWNSHIP

— When a carload of homeward-bound revelers was stopped along I-94 last night, driving on a suspended license with open containers of alcohol in the car turned out to be the least of their problems, according to a news release from the

Deputies stopped a vehicle on I-94 near 28 Mile Road last night at about 10 p.m., when the car failed to move over for an emergency vehicle.

Those infractions were quickly noted; subsequently, a drug-sniffing dog from the Albion Department of Public Safety located a bag in the vehicle containing 20 different bags of pills, later identified as the illicit drug Ecstasy.

Police seized approximately 2,000 pills of Ecstasy with a street value of approximately $40,000 and more than $1,000 in cash from the subjects.

The three men in the vehicle were all from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Deputies found the driver to be driving on a suspended license, and the two passengers to have open alcohol in the vehicle. The men had traveled to Detroit from Wisconsin to go to a party, and were heading back to Wisconsin.

All three men were placed under arrest and lodged at the Calhoun County Jail, where they will be arraigned on charges of Manufacturing and Delivering Ecstasy, and Possession of Open Intoxicants in a motor vehicle, according to the news release.