Nothing quite says “high-stakes cartel mastermind” like rolling down South Bryan Avenue in Dawson County with a fortune in narcotics and a total refusal to obey basic DMV requirements. On Saturday, July 25, 44-year-old driver Brandon Scherich and 46-year-old passenger Tyrell James Mesteth were cruising along in a four-door sedan carrying enough blow to fuel a 1980s Miami nightclub. The only small flaw in their grand scheme was that they didn’t bother displaying a visible license plate.
A Dawson County deputy spotted the plateless sedan and pulled the duo over for what should have been the most easily avoidable traffic stop in West Texas history. During the roadside interview, the pair managed to give the deputy more than enough probable cause to search the car.
Upon searching the vehicle, law enforcement stumbled upon a true marvel of local criminal ingenuity: a blue ice pack wrapped in plastic and tape. Upon closer inspection, officers found that this chilly package was stuffed with a white powdery substance consistent with cocaine, weighing in at a grand total of 1,053.7 grams—or just over two pounds.
Both Scherich and Mesteth were promptly escorted to the Dawson County Jail and booked for Manufacture/Delivery of a Controlled Substance, a first-degree felony. Now they get to spend their days in a cell contemplating how they managed the hard part of securing over two pounds of blow, only to get undone by a missing piece of metal on their rear bumper.
If you’re going to transport a kilo of cocaine across West Texas wrapped in an ice pack, is it really too much to ask that you pass a basic vehicle inspection first?
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