CLERA LAKE, Iowa – An overnight traffic stop results in multiple drug charges against a North Iowa woman.

Diane Marie Lease, 67 of Mason City, was driving along 27 th Avenue South in Clear Lake when she was stopped for a speed limit violation a little after 1 am Wednesday. A police K9 was deployed and indicated the presence of narcotics in Lease’s vehicle.

Investigators say a search of the vehicle found 38 grams of apparent methamphetamine, 13 grams of apparent marijuana, a glass pipe containing white powdery residue, a portable scale, and 15 plastic baggies.

Lease is charged with a controlled substance violence, failure to use a drug tax stamp, and possession of marijuana-1 st offense. She was booked into the Cerro Gordo County Jail on $25,000 cash only bond.

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