By Pat Culverhouse

Driving Wednesday with a switched license plate on their vehicle was the mistake that eventually landed a Homer couple in the Webster Parish lockup on more than a traffic offense.

Webster Parish Capt. Bobby Igo and Sgt. Josh McCormick were traveling east on U.S. Hwy. 80 in Dixie Inn when they noticed a truck with a license plate that did not match the vehicle, according to Sheriff Jason Parker.

After stopping the vehicle and speaking with the driver, 63-year-old Angela D. Latham, and passenger, 55-year-old Jason Stevens, Igo and McCormick reportedly received permission to search the vehicle.

During their search, the officers found a small amount of suspected methamphetamine in the driver’s purse, and a small pill container with suspected methamphetamine between the driver’s seat and console.

A further search uncovered a magnetic box in the bed of the truck containing a baggie of suspected methamphetamine along with a piece of foil containing the same drug. Latham reportedly confessed she had a glass smoking pipe on her person.

Stevens and Latham, residents of the 3400 block of Hwy. 146 in Homer, were each charged with possession of methamphetamine. Latham is looking at an additional charge of possession of drug paraphernalia.

Both are being held at Bayou Dorcheat Correctional Center where bond has been set at $3,500 each.

This information has been provided by a law enforcement agency as public information. Persons named as suspects in a criminal investigation, or arrested and charged with a crime, have not been convicted of any criminal offense and are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.