OCONEE COUNTY, S.C. —

A man has been arrested after deputies found guns and 1,504 high‑potency THC vape pens in his parked Mercedes early Monday morning.

Around 1:30 a.m., a deputy with the Oconee County Sheriff's Office was on patrol in the southern part of the county when the deputy noticed a gray Mercedes sitting in the parking lot of a closed business on Lakeside Circle, which is near S. Highway 11 and I-85 in Fair Play.

According to the arrest warrants , the vehicle was parked in the parking lot of 21 Lakeside Circle, which is listed as Phantom Fireworks of Fair Play.

The deputy pulled into the parking lot and made contact with the driver of the vehicle, identified as 20-year-old Corban Samuel Vander-Ploeg of Spartanburg County.

Vander-Ploeg told the deputy that he was sleeping

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