MONTGOMERY COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a suspect on drug on weapons allegations.
Just before 9p.m. Sept. 13, a sheriff’s deputy conducted a traffic stop on a silver Toyota passenger car in the 200 Block of East Myrtle in Independence, Kansas, according to Sheriff Ron Wade.
The vehicle was displaying a Kansas tag that belongs to another vehicle. The deputy contacted the occupants of the vehicle who were identified as Adam Trollope and Ashley Barrager both of Independence, Kansas.
During the traffic stop investigation, the deputy learned there was a loaded handgun, along with methamphetamine and fentanyl.
The deputy placed Trollope and Barrager in custody. The vehicle was transported to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office where a Search Warrant was preformed on the vehicle.
Detectives located a loaded handgun, over 22 grams of marijuana, over 25 grams of methamphetamine, and 20 plus fentanyl pills.
Trollope was booked into the Montgomery County Department of Corrections requested charges for a suspended driver’s license, no registration, no liability insurance, distribution of marijuana, distribution of methamphetamine, distribution of opiate (Fentanyl), felony drug paraphernalia, criminal possession of a firearm by a person addicted/use of a controlled substance, and no drug tax stamp. Barrager was later released from custody after the investigation was complete.