INDIANAPOLIS — Just after 8 a.m. Tuesday, Indiana State Police said an SUV rolled through a stop sign near U.S. 40 and Bridgeport Road, just north of Indianapolis International Airport.
That led a trooper to pull the vehicle over. Three women were inside the SUV, which was a rental. They told investigators they were on their way to a funeral in Louisville, but they all individually told police a different story about when the funeral was happening.
Court records show police then used a K-9 to investigate the vehicle further and located 112 pounds of meth in vacuum-sealed bags, stashed inside several suitcases.
"This type of methamphetamine that was just seized, almost 120 pounds of methamphetamine, you're looking at a street value of a half-million dollars," said Michael Gannon, special agent in charge with the Drug Enforcement Administration Indianapolis. "Just a tremendous amount of dope taken off the streets."
Gannon told 13News meth is a dangerous, highly addictive drug.
"The thing that's so scary about the methamphetamine and the methamphetamine that we're seizing and getting, their purities are at the highest levels they've ever been," he said.
He said this much of the drug would amount to a potential 50,000 dosage units.
"It's important for us to do the work that was done like the Indiana State Police and identify vehicles that are doing things they're not supposed to, and a traffic stop ensues," said Gannon. "As a result, they were able to use investigative skills and determine that there was that contraband inside the car."
Court records show at least two of the suspects are from California. Thursday, all three were formally charged with dealing in methamphetamine. Two of the suspects, Weatherspoon and Richardson, were also held on out-of-state arrest warrants. They're due in court in Marion County next week.