{"id":271643,"date":"2026-04-29T17:57:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/271643\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T17:57:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:57:51","slug":"man-arrested-after-large-amount-of-drugs-cash-found-in-vehicle-during-fort-worth-traffic-stop-sheriffs-office-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/271643\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after large amount of drugs, cash found in vehicle during Fort Worth traffic stop, sheriff&#8217;s office says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A North Texas man is facing multiple drug charges after being arrested during a traffic stop in Fort Worth, the Tarrant County Sheriff&#8217;s Office announced Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s office said on April 14, a deputy pulled over a vehicle in the 3300 block of Alta Mere Drive. When the deputy spoke with the driver, identified as DeMarcus Rhodes, he noticed &#8220;inconsistencies with the driver&#8217;s statements and actions&#8221; and called in the K-9 unit, the news release said. <\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/k-9-tarrant-county-drug-bust.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"k-9-tarrant-county-drug-bust.jpg \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  K-9 Racket is pictured in front of the table of drugs found during the traffic stop.<\/p>\n<p>                Tarrant County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>When K-9 Racket and his handler arrived at the scene, Racket performed a free air sniff of the vehicle and signaled a positive alert to the deputies for the presence of drugs. <\/p>\n<p>When the deputies searched the vehicle, one kilogram of methamphetamine, 144.4 grams of ecstasy and 15.3 grams of cocaine, along with $1,651 in cash, were found. <\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s office said Rhodes was arrested and charged with two counts of manufacturing\/delivering a controlled substance between 4 grams and 200 grams and one count of manufacturing\/delivering a controlled substance of more than 400 grams.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A North Texas man is facing multiple drug charges after being arrested during a traffic stop in Fort&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[7936,116,118,117,122],"class_list":["post-271643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-drug-bust","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-tarrant-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}