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SABINE COUNTY, Texas (KETK)– The Sabine County Sheriff’s Office found more than 140 grams of methamphetamine early Wednesday morning after a routine traffic stop in Milam.

According to the sheriff’s office, deputies conducted a traffic stop around 2 a.m. near the intersection of Texas Highway 87 and Carter Ferry Road East for an equipment violation.

Officials said that deputies determined that the driver, identified as 26-year-old Devan Keith Newman of Milam, had a suspended driver’s license. He was then arrested for driving with an invalid license.

The passenger, 56-year-old Philip Eugene Wiseman Jr. of Milam, also had a suspended driver’s license and could not legally operate a vehicle in Texas.

Deputies requested a wrecker to the service to the scene and began conducting an inventory of the vehicle’s contents. “During the inventory, under the floormat of the front passenger side was found a small bin which contained two large plastic baggies that both contained a total of 141.51 grams of methamphetamines between them,” the sheriff’s office said. “Wiseman and Newman denied possession of the meth, and both were arrested for manufacture/delivery of a controlled substance.”

Wiseman and Newman were transported to the Sabine County Sheriff’s Office, where they are currently being held until their bond is set.