Pair caught in the act of smoking meth

HOUSTON — Sitting in the backseat of a car, each holding one end of a piece of tinfoil on which they were roasting drugs, a man and a woman were arrested early Saturday morning.

According to an affidavit Alaska State Trooper Matthew Determan filed in court, the call about two people possibly “smoking drugs” inside a car parked at an apartment building on Jerry Circle came in at 10:59 p.m. Friday.

Determan and Trooper Daron Cooper arrived at 12:09 a.m., Saturday.

“I observed the blue van in the parking lot. As I approached the vehicle I saw the illumination of a lighter and two individuals inside the vehicle,” Determan wrote.

Holding one end of an 8-inch piece of aluminum foil was Travis McRae, 23. Holding the other end was Chelsea Morrow, 18. In the center of the foil was “the residue of some substance they had been cooking.”

Morrow later told Determan it had been meth. Two small baggies with small amounts of meth were In the car as well as a straw usually used for smoking it.

As for McRae, Cooper wrote that he “admitted he smokes meth, but said the meth in the vehicle was not his.”

Both were jailed at the Mat-Su Pre-Trial Facility with bail set at $3,000 each, an amount later reduced to $1,000 each, according to court records.

As of Monday afternoon both had made bail and been released.