Traffic stop in Clarinda results in the arrest of a Missouri man on drug charges
March 18th, 2024 by Ric Hanson
(Clarinda, Iowa) – Clarinda Police Chief Keith Brothers reports officers with the Clarinda P-D conducted a traffic stop at around 2:30-p.m., Saturday (March 16), at the intersection of 16th and Orange Streets, and arrested a man on drug charges. 40-year-old Matthew Lee Gusman, of Kansas City, Missouri, was taken into custody after drugs were located in the vehicle he was driving.
Gusman is charged with felony possession of methamphetamine with intent to deliver and failure to have the required drug tax stamps. He was booked into the Page County Jail and held on $100,000 bond, pending the filing of formal charges by the Page County Attorney.
“All defendants are presumed innocent under our system of criminal justice until found guilty in a court of law.”