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ST. GEORGE — Police arrested one man after recovering over 140 pounds of meth and a kilo of cocaine last week.
On March 14, an officer was heading north on Interstate 15 near Exit 2 shortly before 7 p.m. and observed a dark red passenger car with its turn signal activated as it passed multiple vehicles but never merged into the fast lane.
The officer said in the probable cause statement filed in support of the arrest "the red passenger car had multiple opportunities to change lanes but did not," and after observing several more alleged traffic violations, including a rapid lane change that caused another motorist to slam on their brakes to avoid colliding with the merging vehicle, the officer conducted a traffic stop just south of the Brigham Road exit.
While speaking to the driver, identified as 22-year-old Sergio Antonio Silva-Gonzalez by the passport the driver handed over to police that was issued out of Mexico, a K-9 unit officer, who was just clearing an unrelated traffic call a few hundred feet away, responded to the stop to assist. Court records also indicate that Gonzalez is a resident of Denver, Colorado.
While the K-9 was performing a free-air sniff around the outside perimeter of the passenger car the animal indicated to the possible presence of narcotics and the vehicle was searched.
