A traffic stop north of Cherryvale results in the seizure of more than two pounds of methamphetamine and leads to two arrests.

The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office says deputies stopped a 2016 Toyota Tundra near Highway 169 and County Road 6000 shortly before 10:000pm after observing a traffic violation. Deputies identified the driver as James Simsand the passenger as Sherry Hester. During the stop, K-9 Sancho conducted a free-air sniff of the vehicle and alerted to the presence of drugs. A search of the vehicle uncovered more than two pounds of methamphetamine.

Both Sims and Hester were taken into custody and booked into the Montgomery County Department of Corrections on requested drug distribution and drug paraphernalia charges. Sheriff Ron Wade says the seizure removed what could have been several thousand individual doses of methamphetamine from reaching area communities.