A Webster man is behind bars in the Lake County Jail on multiple charges after a traffic stop in Leesburg on Sunday night.
Lake County sheriff’s deputies obtained probable cause to search the vehicle and found a red backpack containing methamphetamine and MDMA. They also located documents showing the vehicle belonged to the front-seat passenger, 31-year-old Jasmic Tyrone Holden, a sheriff’s office report states.
Deputies also found a loaded Springfield XD-M 9mm pistol within reach of where Holden had been sitting, the report says, adding that the handgun had been reported lost in Marion County.
During the traffic stop, deputies learned that Holden was a convicted felon and currently on bond for aggravated assault and shooting into an occupied vehicle along with several traffic-related offenses. He also had warrants for two counts of possession of a weapon or ammunition by a convicted felon, fleeing law enforcement and resisting officers.
Holden, a Leesburg native who lives at 302 N.E. 4th St. in Webster, was placed under arrest and transported to the Lake County Jail, where he was charged with two counts of possession of methamphetamine, three counts of possession of a firearm or ammunition by a convicted felon, resisting an officer without violence, operating a motor vehicle without a valid license and failure to obey a law enforcement’s order to stop. He was being held on $24,000 bond and is due in court Jan. 25 at 8:30 a.m. to answer to the charges, jail records show.