A Leesburg pair was arrested on drug charges after deputies stopped them with marijuana and methamphetamine at Russell Stover in Wildwood.
A deputy stopped 35-year-old Akeem Lemar Lewis and 61-year-old Kimberly Jean Moran in a gold 2013 Chevrolet Traverse in the parking lot of Russell Stover Chocolates, located at 950 Industrial Dr., Wildwood, at 1 p.m. Thursday, according to an arrest report from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office. The vehicle’s registration expired on Oct. 11.
A K-9 unit alerted to the odor of narcotics, leading to a search of the vehicle and its occupants. The center console cup holders had a metal pink cup containing a small plastic baggie of marijuana buds and a glass pipe with burnt methamphetamine residue. There were also two clear plastic straws with traces of methamphetamine on the floorboard where Lewis was sitting, the report said.
Moran was found to have a white Zyn container of methamphetamine and two small plastic baggies with traces of methamphetamine in her pocket. She also had a purse containing a Batman tin of methamphetamine, baggies with traces of it and a Walgreens pill bottle with four Alprazolam pills. The methamphetamine totaled 14 grams, the report said…