From the Trussville Tribune staff reports
JEFFERSON COUNTY – A traffic stop early Wednesday morning led to the seizure of over a pound of methamphetamine and three ounces of cocaine as well as the arrest of two women from Florence, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s office.
Authorities are reporting that just after midnight a member of the Sheriff’s Highway Safety Detail conducted the stop of a Chrysler 300 for a traffic violation on I-20 W at mile marker 132 near Montevallo Road. A subsequent search of the vehicle revealed one pound two ounces of methamphetamine and three ounces of cocaine in the trunk of the car.
The occupants of the car, 24-year-old Melynde Ane Fagnes and 29-year-old Adaisha Yelese Smith, both of Florence, were arrested and charged with trafficking cocaine and trafficking methamphetamine.
They were taken to the Jefferson County Jail and held on $30,000 bond each.