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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The work of Sheriff's Special Enforcement Detail K-9 narcotics detection teams led to the arrests of two local men and the seizure of cocaine, methamphetamine and money this week.
Joseph Lee Williams, 61, of Clearlake and 57-year-old Luther Gene Weathers of Clearlake Oaks were arrested on drug-related charges, according to Capt. James Bauman of the Lake County Sheriff's Office.
Bauman said that on Thursday, May 12, at approximately 4:40 p.m., a Sheriff’s K-9 team assigned to the Sheriff's Special Enforcement Detail stopped a black Chevy Camaro being driven by 52-year-old Cheryl Denise Lewis on Old Highway 53 in the city of Clearlake.
Lewis did not have a valid driver’s license but Williams, who was riding as her passenger, told the deputy he possessed a valid license, Bauman said.
While waiting for sheriff’s dispatch to confirm his license was valid, Williams consented to a search. Bauman said Williams began removing articles from his pockets and was found to have a quantity of “crack” cocaine in one of his pants pockets.
Williams was arrested and booked at the Lake County Hill Road Correctional Facility for possession of a narcotic controlled substance. He later posted the $10,000 bail and was released, according to jail records.
On Friday, May 13, at approximately 1:30 p.m., Sheriff's Special Enforcement Detail deputies were patrolling the Clearlake Oaks area when they spotted Weathers driving his blue Ford pickup truck on Third Street near Keys Boulevard, according to Bauman.
Deputies knew Weathers’ driver’s license had been suspended and initiated a traffic stop, Bauman said. As Weathers stopped his truck, he abruptly got out and ran around the truck with his hand in his pocket in an apparent attempt to conceal or dispose of contraband.
Weathers was detained and determined to be under the influence of a controlled substance. Bauman said deputies searched Weathers and recovered a bag of methamphetamine and a glass “meth” pipe from his pants pocket. More than $600 also was seized from Weathers as the suspected profits of drug sales.
Due to the furtive movements Weathers made when he exited the truck, Bauman said deputies searched the area around the truck and located a white plastic cylinder in the grass approximately 15 feet from the truck. The cylinder was believed to have been tossed by Weathers and deputies found that it contained over a third of an ounce of methamphetamine packaged in several plastic bags.
Weathers was transported to the Lake County Hill Road Correctional Facility where he was booked for possession of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance for sales, transportation of a controlled substance, possession of narcotics paraphernalia, and being under the influence of a controlled substance, Bauman said.
Weathers was arrested on March 14 for similar offenses when a search warrant was served at his home by the Sheriff’s Narcotics Task Force, Bauman said. A quarter ounce of methamphetamine, numerous narcotic medications, and over $1,000.00 in currency were also seized during that arrest.
He was out of custody on bail from that arrest when deputies stopped him on Friday. Bauman said that due to multiple prior arrests for sales of controlled substances, Weathers remained in jail on Friday with an enhanced bail of $150,000.
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