CIBOLA COUNTY, N.M. - A man was travelling from Arizona, presumed by police to have been heading home, when a Cibola County Sheriff’s Deputy attempted a traffic stop on the vehicle in the early morning of Monday, October 5. The driver fled and the incident ended with the vehicle flipping over.
The sheriff’s office was running drug interdiction on Interstate-40 when they tried pulling over Fred Davis of North Dakota. Davis allegedly fled from the police, triggering a short-term pursuit. Davis was allegedly discarding drugs and other paraphernalia from the window of his vehicle before he lost control and flipped the vehicle, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
After the accident deputies discovered drugs strewn across the side of the road where Davis allegedly fled from the police. Due to the volume of drugs that the deputies discovered they acquired a search warrant which netted a bust for marijuana.
“We were also able to recover some large chunks of methamphetamine off the interstate that he threw out the window,” Cibola County Sheriff Tony Mace said. That was not all the methamphetamine that was discovered. The deputies found a kilo of methamphetamine. In street language, according to Sheriff Mace, that is considered a “brick” of methamphetamine.
Due to the accident, Davis was taken to Cibola General Hospital, Grants, where he remained as of press time. Davis is currently under guard at CGH, according to the sheriff, where he will stay until he can be transferred to the Cibola County Correctional Center in Milan, N.M.
CCSO runs drug interdiction on the interstate regularly, the sheriff said, keeping drugs from moving along I-40, which has been designated as a “drug corridor” by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. This year, the sheriff’s office has had several huge drug busts and related arrests. Sheriff Mace praised his deputies for the work they’re doing to keep drugs off the streets.