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Vehicle stop leads to drug arrest

Published December 05. 2015 09:00AM

A vehicle stop along Interstate 80 in East Side Borough, Carbon County, led to the arrest of a passenger on drug charges and a pound of marijuana being found in the vehicle.

State police at Fern Ridge said Peter Rodriguez, of Yonkers, New York, was a passenger in a 2008 Mercury Marquis stopped at 2:20 a.m. Nov. 21. During the stop troopers noted indicators of criminal activity. A consent search of the vehicle was denied. A K-9 unit was brought to the scene and drugs were detected in the vehicle.

A search was then conducted and a pound of marijuana was found in the trunk. Rodriquez was charged with possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance.

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