Vehicle stopped for insurance not up to date, driver arrested for a warrant and drugs
- Travis Uresk
- Jan 11
- 2 min read
By Travis Uresk
1/11/25
| Uintah County | January 8th, 2025 |
A Uintah County Deputy conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle because the insurance was not up to date.
Deputy Russell met with the only occupant of the vehicle and informed her of the stop. She admitted she didn't have insurance and began telling the deputy that she had just bought the vehicle a few weeks ago and hadn't registered it yet.
The deputy asked for her driver's license, but she said she didn't have one. He asked for her name and date of birth, which she gave as Tashea Rose Cornpeach, 9/29/1984 (40).
The officer returned to his patrol vehicle to run Tashea's information through Dispatch. The information returned that Tashea, in fact, has a denied driver's license along with a no-bail warrant out of 8th District Court Vernal.
Deputy Russell returned to Tashea's vehicle and had her exit. She was placed under arrest for the warrant. The deputy explained that the warrant was a no-bail warrant. Because Tashea was being taken to jail, he only searched probability areas for weapons. He asked her if she had anything else on her that was illegal, i.e., Drugs or paraphernalia, and she stated no.
During the search of her purse for weapons or drugs, a small pink bag with a pill bottle was located. Inside the pill bottle was a lace bag with a tooter straw and several blue pills believed to be fentanyl, and a small bag of meth.
Tashea was escorted inside the jail. During the search by jail staff, it was discovered that Tashea had another small container of white substance along with a piece of foil with burnt residue and a small blue fentanyl pill inside her right front pocket.
Tashea currently has several charges similar to this incident pending in the 8th District Court.
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