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ST. GEORGE — Two people were indicted in federal court following a traffic stop on Interstate 15 last month, when authorities recovered more than $260,000 in methamphetamine and fentanyl from a box located on the backseat – just inches from an infant.
The traffic stop was conducted shortly after 5 a.m. on Feb. 9, after a Utah Highway Patrol trooper began to follow a northbound vehicle with Oklahoma plates on I-15 that was swerving out of its travel lane, according to the probable cause statement filed in support of the arrests.
Passing mile marker 6, the driver of the vehicle reportedly failed to move over for two officers stopped on the right shoulder, which is when the trooper pulled the car over just south of the St. George Boulevard Exit.
There were three occupants in the vehicle: 32-year-old Angjo Mary Lynn Taylor, of Anaheim, California, who was driving the car; 35-year-old Dominque Terence Rogers, of Thornton, Colorado; and a 1-year-old infant secured in a car seat in the back seat.
Police say while speaking to the driver, they became suspicious, and a K-9 was deployed to conduct a free-air sniff around the exterior of the car. When the animal indicated the possible presence of narcotics, a search of the vehicle ensued.
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