By Gary Meyer

A simple traffic stop in Lake of the Woods led to the discovery of 27 grams of methamphetamine on Friday, Aug. 29.

Kern County Sheriff’s Sergeant Mark Brown said one of his deputies stopped the driver of a Chevrolet Suburban at 12:33 p.m. on Frazier Mountain Park Road in Lake of the Woods for having no mud flaps over the wheel wells while the vehicle was raised off the chassis.

“They wouldn’t have searched the vehicle,” Brown said, “if the driver’s license had not been suspended.”
The search yielded a surprisingly large shard of methamphetamine, approximately…

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Photo captions:

Photo at left: Sgt. Mark Brown looks over a shard of methamphetamine that sheriff’s deputies say they found inside a Chevrolet Suburban in Lake of the Woods on Friday, Aug. 29.

Below: This 27-gram shard of methamphetamine, was said to be worth about $2,700 in street value, and large enough for 270 doses of the harmful drug.

Above: A syringe that Sgt. Brown said was found inside the vehicle was “loaded and ready to go.”

Above: Kern County Sheriff’s deputies, Sgt. Mark Brown and a Fort Tejon CHP officer search a Chevrolet Suburban in Lake of the Woods. Deputies said they found a large amount of methamphetamine.

This is part of the September 5, 2014 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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