LORAIN — Asking a stranger to hold your weed when you spot a police car is never a good idea.

Asking a stranger, who happens to be an off-duty police officer, is probably the definition of a bad idea. Yet Saturday night outside the Broadway bar Dimacchia’s on the Corner, that’s what police say 35-year-old David LaViena of Lorain did, which resulted in his arrest for possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

LaViena, who police say was highly intoxicated at the time, was outside the bar when he spotted a police cruiser and said to an off-duty detective, “Here, man, hold my weed.”

The detective called for an on-duty police officer, who took LaViena to the Lorain City Jail. A small plastic baggie containing suspected marijuana was taken as evidence, the police report said.

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