DTF charges two after cache of drugs, $3.5K in cash found
Two local felons, including a habitual offender with 15 prior felony convictions, were charged with multiple felonies early Thursday after over a quarter pound of meth and over $3,500 in cash were found in their possession.
David Shane Goings, 51, who lists a Frontier Circle address, and Cheyenne Mari Fields, 45, who lists a Charnela Lane address in Hot Springs Village, were both taken into custody around 1:15 a.m. and each charged with possession of meth with purpose to deliver, punishable by up to 30 years
in prison, unauthorized use of another person’s property to facilitate a crime and possession of drug paraphernalia, each punishable by up to 20 years, and tampering with physical evidence, punishable by up to six years.
Goings, who had a parole hold on him, was being held on a zero bond and Fields, who had a warrant for failure to appear, was being held on a $23,500 bond and both are set to appear today in Garland County District Court.
Goings was convicted in Garland County Circuit Court on Jan. 13, 2014, of five counts of residential burglary and at the time of his conviction was classified as a habitual offender with 10 prior felony convictions. Fields was convicted on April 28, 2006, in Saline County of manufacturing a controlled substance and sentenced to six years’ probation.
According to the probable cause affidavit on Thursday’s arrest, Garland County sheriff’s Deputy Richard Garrett made a traffic stop on a black Honda Accord after it crossed the centerline in the 4400 block of Highway 7 north.
As the Honda was pulling into a parking lot to stop Garrett noted multiple bags being thrown out of the passenger window, so he called for backup and Deputy Chandler Overton arrived to assist. Garrett retrieved the four plastic bags he saw being thrown which contained a white crystal substance.
He made contact with the driver, identified as Goings, and passenger, identified as Fields, and a computer check revealed the warrant for Fields and that the car belonged to a Jacksonville woman.
In searching Goings, deputies reportedly found $503 in cash in his pocket. As Fields was being taken into custody, a fifth bag of white crystal was located in the seat where she had been sitting. Deputies also found a set of digital scales in the floorboard and $3,061 in a pink zip-up bag.
The contents of the five bags found field-tested positive for meth, a total of 136.5 grams, or over 5 ounces or 0.299 of a pound. A witness at the scene gave deputies a written statement confirming he “seen them throw bags out the window and deputies picked up three or more out of the parking spot where they threw them.”
Agents with the 18th Judicial District East Drug Task Force were notified and responded to the scene to assume the investigation, taking possession of the evidence and seizing the money and vehicle.