SALINE CO.— Methamphetamine, pills and now driving with both onboard as well as on a suspended license appears to be the going thing this issue.
As evidence of this, a traffic stop on Barnett Road in Harrisburg landed an Eldorado woman and Carrier Mills man behind bars on drug charges.
David E. Garris, II
Information filed in the case alleges that on March 21, at approximately 10:26 a.m. David E. Garris, II, age 35, of US Rte. 45, Carrier Mills, was spotted driving a blue Chevy Blazer eastbound on Barnett Street.
The officer recognized Garris and knew his license was suspended.
A quick check of his license information revealed that he was wanted.
Garris was taken into custody and the vehicle inventoried prior to being towed and 41 grams of methamphetamine was located in the console.
Lori Christine Rovito
A passenger in the truck, 43-year-old Lori Christine Rovito, of Upchurch Street in Eldorado, for whatever reason consented to a search of her purse, in which police say they found one tablet of Alprazolam.
It was at about that time that Rovito produced a smaller purse from the waistband of her pants in which authorities say they discovered two grams of cannabis, one gram of methamphetamine, three more Alprazolam tablets and one glass smoking pipe which contained burnt residue.
Garris was charged with Driving Suspended and Unlawful Possession of Methamphetamine 15-100 grams.
Rovito was also taken into custody and charged with one count each of Unlawful Possession of Methamphetamine 15-100 grams and Unlawful Possession of a Controlled Substance.
While Rovito doesn’t have much of a criminal history in Saline County, the same cannot be said for her buddy Garris.
On August 27, 2001 Garris was sentenced to 12 months probation, which he violated at least twice, which added a few more months to his probation in July, then November, 2002.
Garris entered the ranks of the area’s convicted felons in 2010 when he was arrested and charged with Unlawful Delivery of Methamphetamine 5-15 grams, Unlawful Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, Child Endangerment and Unlawful Manufacture/Delivery of Cannabis 30-500 grams.
He ultimately pleaded to the cannabis charge and was sentenced to 30 days in the county jail and 30 months probation.
Not surprisingly enough he violated that probation as well when he was arrested April 4, 2012 and charged with Unlawful Possession of Methamphetamine Precursors 20-100 grans and Unlawful Possession of Methamphetamine Manufacturing Materials.
He pled to the manufacturing materials charge and was sentenced to the Illinois Department of Corrections for five years.
He was also ordered to fork over $2,553 in fines and fees, of which he has paid nothing.
This time, Garris was sprung from the county jail March 22 after a $2,000 cash bond was posted on his behalf by Zachary Russel, of South Ledford Street in Harrisburg.
Rovito was released from custody the next day, March 23, after a $1,500 cash bond was posted on her behalf by Alyse Williams, of Largent Street in Harrisburg.
Meth and driving suspended
In an unrelated case, an Eldorado man has been charged with Unlawful Possession of Methamphetamine after he was stopped by officers for driving erratically.
According to court documents, on March 18 off-duty Eldorado officer Adam Stanley contacted dispatch and reported that he had witnessed a car cross the centerline on State Street in Eldorado.
When officer Eron Williams executed a traffic stop, he discovered the driver, 52-year-old Timothy Wayne Moore, of Panama St., Eldorado, was not only driving on a suspended license but was wanted on a Saline County warrant for Failure to Appear.
Timothy Wayne Moore
Timothy Wayne Moore
Subsequent to his arrest, officer Williams found a small plastic bag in Moore’s front right pants pocket.
Inside that bag was another baggie, which contained a crystalized substance.
In Moore’s left front pants pocket Williams found another baggie that contained a white powdery substance and a small container that contained several different types of pills.
Moore claims to have a prescription for the pills from VA.
Both the crystalized substance and white powdery substance field-tested positive for methamphetamine.
By all accounts, Moore didn’t claim to have a script for the meth, and the VA likely would be hard-pressed to convince anyone that they’re moving that particular hillbilly heroin among their patients.
Moore was booked into the county jail on a single charge of Unlawful Possession of Methamphetamine.
Cash bond in the case has been set at $1,000.