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La Porte Traffic Stop Leads to Drug Bust

(La Porte, IN) - A driver was allegedly found with crack cocaine during a traffic stop in La Porte.

 

DeAngelo Williams, 27, is charged in La Porte Circuit Court with Level 5 felony possession of cocaine.

 

According to court documents, a La Porte County Sheriff’s Deputy on October 27 stopped Williams for traveling 40 miles per hour in a 35 mph zone on Pine Lake Ave. Police said the Michigan City man kept reaching toward his waistband even after ordered to stop.

 

He was allegedly found with more than five grams of crack cocaine.

 

Further details were not revealed.  Williams was still being held Friday in the La Porte County Jail on $15,000 bond.

He could face a one to six-year sentence.

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