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ST. GEORGE — Conflicting accounts and the lack of state-issued identification reportedly led to the recovery of more than 50 pounds of meth over the weekend.
Shortly before 6 p.m. on Saturday, a Utah Highway Patrol trooper stopped a vehicle heading north on Interstate 15 near mile marker 23 in Leeds on a window tint violation, according to charging documents filed with the court.
The trooper found two occupants in the vehicle: 37-year-old Jose Jimenez-Ortiz, of Brookfield, Illinois, and passenger, Carlos Galvez Martinez, a Honduran national.
While speaking to the pair, the trooper reportedly observed several indicators that led him to suspect there may be "clandestine activity" taking place, such as neither being able to provide identification issued in the United States.
