SUBLETTE COUNTY – First on June 3, a man driving 102 mph was pulled over and he and his female passenger arrested and jailed after a search yielded a plastic bag with a felony amount of meth. Then the man called a Colorado friend from jail to come get his car and find a stash of meth hidden in his vehicle that a trooper didn’t find the first time around.

Now three people are charged in connection with what started out as a traffic stop, according to court records.

Craig A. Madonna, of Dacono, Colo., was drinking from a can of Jack Daniels Country Cocktail and told Wyoming Highway Patrol Trooper Tyler Schilling he had only drank half; the trooper poured out the other half, according to his affidavit.

Passenger Desiray Vincioni, also of Colorado, said she was drinking a Red Bull and vodka. The trooper saw a rubber bong in her door and Madonna said they smoked marijuana in it but didn’t have any left, it says. Earlier he said there was only meth residue and nothing usable, it says.

Schilling found a clear plastic bag with crystalline powder behind the passenger’s seat and both denied it was theirs, so he arrested both for felony meth possession, he reported.

Madonna allegedly said the powder might have fentanyl so it was weighed at but not field tested at a weight of 11.4 grams.

On June 5, Madonna was charged with felony possession of a controlled substance and misdemeanors of open container of alcohol in a moving vehicle and exceeding the 70-mph speed limit. He appeared in Sublette County Circuit Court represented by public defender Rachel Weksler and bond was set at $15,000 cash or surety.

Madonna waived a speedy preliminary hearing. His preliminary hearing is set for July 19 at 9:30 a.m.

Vincioni was charged with felony meth possession and open containers of alcohol in a moving vehicle. She is represented by public defender Elisabeth Trefonas and was released after paying $5,000 cash or surety bond. Her Circuit Court preliminary hearing is set for July 12 at 1:30 p.m.

While Madonna was in custody, he called friend JoDe Chapas in Lakewood, Colo., from the detention center’s phone, which records incoming and outgoing calls. He asked Chapas to fly from Denver to Jackson and come to Pinedale to retrieve his vehicle, which, he said, Vincioni still had a half-ounce of meth in a beverage “hide” or hidden compartment that wasn’t found.

Madonna asked her to get his car from where it had been towed, an affidavit says.

Wyoming Highway Patrol was alerted about Madonna’s call and that a woman was coming to get his car so Schilling applied for a search warrant on June 17, he said. They found a Monster Energy beverage can with a false top concealing about 21.4 grams of presumed meth, he said, also a felony amount.

Chapas was charged June 19 with accessory after the fact of a felony crime and misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance. Sublette County Deputy Attorney Damon De Bernardi called Schilling to the stand for Chapas’ preliminary hearing on June 28, who said Madonna reportedly told Chapas twice this passenger left a controlled substance in his car.

She did not get to the car, Schilling said, which was being searched as she waited.

“If she had driven it away, you wouldn’t have found the (hidden) meth,” De Bernardi asked.

“No,” the trooper said.

Chapas was represented by Lander public defender Jonathan Gerard, who questioned the WHP procedures and asked the trooper who the second cache of meth belonged to – he said Madonna and Vincioni were the ones in the car.

“You didn’t find it the first time around,” he said. “… JoDe Chapas never even went to get the car?”

Gerard asked if the second stash was added to the first felony meth charge or made into a second charge. It would be one felony charge with a larger quantity against both Vincioni and Madonna, he said.

In closing, De Bernardi argued Chapas’ intent to prevent the meth discovery.

Gerard said the trooper “had searched the exact same car” and there was a fine line between Chapas intending to destroy evidence or just drive the car away. Finding more meth wouldn’t apply to the first charge, he argued, because they were already charged with the same crime for the first discovery.

“If anyone else got in that car, it would be a felony now,” De Bernardi said.

Judge John LaBuda told Gerard he understood what he was saying but the statute refers to hindering or delaying finding of evidence.

The judge bound the case over to 9^th District Court, lowered Chapas’ bond to $5,000 cash or surety, which her family could meet and approved her return to Colorado where she is on probation.