(La Porte County, IN) - La Porte County Police made a drug bust after stopping a car for having a loud muffler.

About 10 a.m. Friday, police said an officer heard the loud muffler at U.S. 20 and Indiana 39 and soon made a traffic stop.

According to police, the driver, Jason Conrick denied having any drugs in the vehicle but a K-9 dog conducting an outside sweep of the 1996 Honda disagreed.

It’s alleged a sandwich bag containing over six grams of methamphetamine along with a smoking pipe used to ingest the drug were recovered from a backpack on the back seat of the car.

The 43 year old La Porte man taken to the La Porte County Jail on two counts, including Level 5 felony possession of methamphetamine. 

Conrick was being held on $15,000 bond.