(La Porte County, IN) - What started as a seemingly routine traffic stop in La Porte County resulted in drug arrests and seizure of a military style weapon.

 

Cody Marlar, 30, and Kristyn Ford, 29, were in a vehicle stopped by Indiana State Police early Monday for traveling 87 miles per hour in the eastbound lanes of the Indiana Toll Road.

 

According to ISP, suspicions of the trooper were raised by the presence of a glass smoking pipe containing burn marks and residue inside the vehicle.

Officers from the La Porte County Sheriff’s Office and Westville responded to calls for assistance.

 

Police said recovered from inside and beside the vehicle was over 12 grams of methamphetamine in separate packages.  Officers also found in the vehicle a loaded Aero Precision LLL-AR-15 rifle, which strongly resembles a machine gun.

 

There was one round in the chamber and six additional rounds in the magazine of the rapid firing designed rifle, police said. 

 

Both suspects from Oklahoma are charged with multiple drug related counts.