A routine traffic stop in Marion County led to a felony arrest of a 48-year-old man after deputies say he possessed methamphetamine and made violent threats against a law enforcement officer.
On Sunday, October 4, a deputy patrolling near a Fort McCoy intersection observed a Dodge pickup truck traveling westbound on East Highway 316 without a license plate attached. The deputy initiated a traffic stop on the vehicle and made contact with the driver, identified as Fort McCoy resident Tommy Eugene Longerbeam, according to the arrest report.
During initial questioning, Longerbeam reportedly admitted that the vehicle was unregistered and uninsured, stating that someone had left the truck with his brother months earlier. When asked to present his driver’s license, Longerbeam allegedly told the deputy that law enforcement had taken his license in 1992 and that he had not obtained one since…