LIBERTY COUNTY, TX- On October 28, around 3:50 p.m. Cleveland Police Officer Brown was patrolling the 400 block of Belcher Street, when he saw a 1995 white Chevy Pickup had the wrong registration. The pickup also had no front license plate.
Officer Brown initiated a traffic stop on the pickup in the 900 Block of N. Washington Ave. Officer Brown approached and identified the driver as Dakota Morgan. Â Officer Brown said Morgan, who seemed very nervous, was immediately placed in custody for displaying the wrong registration.
During an inventory of the pickup, Officer Brown found a sunglasses holder containing a clear plastic bag holding 0.52 grams of methamphetamine and a syringe, between the center seat and the front right passenger seat.
Dakota Ray Morgan, 36, of Cleveland, is charged with state jail felony Possession of a Controlled Substance, penalty group 1/1-B, less than one gram. Morgan was transported and booked into the Cleveland Police Department Jail. Judge Ralph Fuller set Morgan’s bond at $10,000. He was released on bond the following day.
