Iredell County Traffic Stop Leads To $186K Meth Trafficking Bust

MOORESVILLE, NC — A traffic violation along an Iredell County interstate this week led deputies to a stash of methamphetamine with a street value of nearly $200,000 and landed two North Carolina men in handcuffs, charged with its trafficking.

The Feb. 20 incident occurred early in the morning along Interstate 40, near mile marker 146, according to an account by Iredell County Sheriff’s Office.

Deputies in ICSO’s Interstate Criminal Enforcement (ICE) team stopped a 2016 Nissan Altima for traffic violations, but during the stop deputies became suspicious of criminal activity. A drug dog was brought to the vehicle for an open-air sniff and made a positive alert for narcotics, ICSO said.

Deputies then conducted a probable cause search and found more than 450 grams of crystal methamphetamine hidden in a coat and wrapped in a plastic bag inside the car.

ICSO estimated the street value of the narcotics at $186,000.

The two suspects inside the vehicle — identified as Carlos Edward Williams, Jr., 54, of Mocksville, NC and David Eugene McCord, 73, of Mount Pleasant, NC — were taken into custody. They were both charged with felony trafficking methamphetamine by possession and felony trafficking methamphetamine by transport.

Williams was also charged with giving false information to an officer, which is a misdemeanor, and driving while license revoked.

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