More than 7 grams of methamphetamine was reportedly found in a fast food cup during an traffic stop late Monday night along I-30 in Hopkins County, according to arrest reports.
Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office deputies reported stopping the driver of a white Ford F250 at 11:15 p.m. Sept. 12, 2022, on the south Interstate 30 service road at mile marker 135 for failure to maintain a single lane of traffic.
Deputy Drew Fisher, in arrest reports, noted that John Adam McGinn continued to exhibit nervous behaviors, after being told he was receiving only a verbal warning for the traffic violation. Fisher and Sgt. Tanner Steward‘s suspicions, leading the sheriff’s officer to ask the Mount Vernon man for permission to search the pickup.
When McGinn refused, Fisher deployed his narcotics detection canine around the truck. The police K-9 alerted on the pickup, resulting in a probable cause search by deputies, Fisher noted in arrest reports. Discovered in a McDonald’s cup full of Coke was a tin container with two baggies with a crystal-like substance in each, Fisher alleged in arrest reports. Believing the substance in the baggies to be methamphetamine, the deputies took 40-year-old John Adam McGinn into custody at 11:20 p.m. Sept. 12, and transported him to Hopkins County jail. The suspected meth found in the fast food cup field-tested positive for meth and weighed 7.247 grams, the deputies alleged in arrest reports.
As a result, McGinn was booked into Hopkins County jail at 1:06 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022, on a possession of 4 grams or more but less than 200 grams of a Penalty Group 1/1-B controlled substance, according to arrest and jail reports. The Mount Vernon man remained in Hopkins County jail later Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022, in lieu of the $50,000 bond set on the felony controlled substance charge, 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.
