Glasses may have helped.

Three suspected drug dealers were arrested Tuesday night for divvying up a pound of marijuana in the darkened parking lot of a nondescript building in Lacombe, one with "St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office" scrawled across the side and the department seal plastered on the wall.

"Maybe they were lost. Or perhaps they couldn't read the sign outside the building. Either way, three young Slidell men made a colossal error in judgment," Sheriff Office spokesman George Bonnett said in a release. The driver, Brad Penny, 17, of 163 Silverwood Drive, and cohorts Michael Cefalu, 19, of 1070 Old River Road, and Jeremy Baumgariner, 18, of 145 Timbers Drive, also of Slidell, were each arrested and charged with possession of schedule I controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute, possession of drug paraphernalia and illegal use or possession of a controlled dangerous substance in the presence of underage persons.

A forth vehicle occupant was a juvenile and slept through the ordeal, Bonnett said. He was released to his mother's custody.

When deputies pulled up to investigate the suspicious vehicle, Penny drove away, traveling east on U.S. Highway 190. Deputies soon stopped the vehicle and were "met with a strong odor of marijuana wafting from the open windows," Bonnett said.

The teenagers gave consent to search the vehicle where deputies found several bags of marijuana, packaged for resale, hidden under the dashboard.

If convicted on the possession with intent to distribute charge, each teenager faces between five and 30 years in prison, Bonnett said.

"We may never know why three aspiring drug dealers decided on the brisk Sunday morning of March 9 to park where they did," Bonnett said. "We do know, however, that while searching for a suitable location to package their drugs in this (nearly) 800-square-mile parish, they decided the parking lot of the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office Lacombe Substation was the place."