An East Loop 301 traffic stop at 12:05 a.m. Jan. 13, 2022, resulted in one controlled substance arrest.
Sulphur Springs Police Officers Silas Whaley and Robble Acosta conducted a traffic stop on a black Chrysler 300. The driver and owner of the car gave the officers permission to search it.
Whaley reported finding a gray bag containing a crystal-like substance believed based on his training to be methamphetamine in the passenger side door. The passenger, identified in arrest reports as Steven Charles Gilreath, allegedly admitted to being the one in possession of the bag of suspected meth. Police took the 25-year-old Sulphur Springs man into custody at 12:26 a.m. Thursday and transported him to jail; the driver was released, Whaley noted in arrest reports.
Gilreath was booked into the county jail at 1:21 a.m. Jan. 13, 2022, for possession of 1 gram or more but less than 4 grams of a Penalty Group 1 controlled substance. He remained in Hopkins County jail later Thursday; bond on the felony charge was set at $20,000, according to jail reports.
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The Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office is located at 298 Rosemont Sulphur Springs, TX 75482. You can reach them for non-emergency matters at (903) 438-4040.
