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Marcus Lamarr Ellington is charged with trafficking marijuana.

((Jefferson County Jail))

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Alabama - A Jefferson County man who allowed lawmen to search his home in the hunt for a theft suspect ended up in trouble himself.

Jefferson County sheriff's deputies on Saturday night were called to a home in the 1300 block of Devine Drive in the Forestdale area after a repo man said someone stole a pickup truck off of his lift. After loading up the truck, he told deputies, a man came from the house, unloaded the truck and drove off.

Deputies were told the suspect was believed to have hidden the truck somewhere else and then returned to the home on foot. They knocked on the door, and a different man answered.

That man told deputies the suspect didn't live there, and had left before they arrived. They asked to look around inside to make sure the suspect was gone, and the man agreed.

Once inside, deputies found cocaine, prescription drugs and more than four pounds of marijuana, said Chief Deputy Randy Christian. They also found a shotgun, a handgun and cash.

Authorities arrested Marcus Lamarr Ellington, 39. He is charged with trafficking marijuana, unlawful possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Ellington is being held in the Jefferson County Jail with bond set at $116,000. Christian said the original suspect on the vehicle theft remains at large.