Ok this is exactly what you don't do... use your brain people common now. Or atleast don't get caught... Ok this is exactly what you don't do... use your brain people common now. Or atleast don't get caught...

SOUTH HOUSTON, Texas - Police did not have to go far to arrest a drug possession suspect this week as he was found in their parking lot smoking marijuana on Monday.

Charles Powell, 33, has been arrested more than a half-dozen times over the years, but police said his latest bust happened right outside the police station.

According to police, Powell was standing by his car when he decided to relax with a marijuana cigarette and a beer -- across the street from the city of South Houston's police department on July 25.

A South Houston detective was on his way to lunch when Chief Herbert Gilbert said the detective smelled marijuana.

"The detective came out the rear entry," Gilbert said. According to the chief, Powell was in front of a sign clearly marked "police" smoking what appeared to be a cigar, but was actually a cigar filled with marijuana.

"He was here with a friend who was visiting someone in our jail," Gilbert said.

The detective confronted Powell. "In 21 years, this is a first. I've seen a lot of things, but never encountered someone smoking a marijuana cigarette in a police parking lot," Gilbert said.

Powell would not appear on camera, but said by phone that he wasn't smoking marijuana, just a cigarette.