A Most Unfortunate Enterprise in Yerington

Man Arrested in Methamphetamine Case

It’s mournful when a man sets his sights on fortune and, finding the honest roads too dull or the hills too steep, takes the downward path instead. Such is the case of one Matthew Stuart, a resident of Yerington, who now finds himself a guest of the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office, courtesy of his alleged ventures in the trade of illicit substances.

The Lyon County Sheriff’s Office, in concert with the Yerington Police Department, had been keeping a keen eye on certain unsavory activities in the area. During the fine month of February, they took it upon themselves to investigate a flourishing enterprise in methamphetamine trafficking. Their inquiries led them, on the 24th, to Bridge Street, where they executed a search warrant with all the vigor and resolve of men determined to rid their fair town of vice and villainy.

They found an embarrassment of riches, though of the sort that leads not to prosperity but to penitentiary accommodations. The haul included no less than 431 grams of methamphetamine, three pounds of marijuana, 95 grams of concentrated THC, and—just to round out the inventory—an illegal firearm because no enterprise of this nature is complete without one.

As a consequence of this ill-advised venture, Mr. Stuart now enjoys the dubious distinction of facing a remarkable array of charges, including, but not limited to, being an ex-felon in possession of a firearm, trafficking in methamphetamine at an impressive level, possession of said methamphetamine with the entrepreneurial spirit of sales in mind, and similar ambitions regarding marijuana. He’s also accused of dabbling in the production of concentrated cannabis and, in a particularly grievous misstep, endangering a child in the process.

For these alleged offenses, Mr. Stuart’s bail is at the eye-watering sum of $142,500, a sum that might have served him better had it been accumulated through honest toil rather than through enterprises so contrary to the good order of society.