Miami police find meth in man’s Louis Vuitton bag after 2 car crashes, chase, cops say

MIAMI — A wild series of events that began with a driver blowing both a stop sign and a red light led to Miami police finding meth inside of his Louis Vuitton bag, according to an arrest report. In between all of that, police said he wrecked into two other drivers and fled officers.

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Miami police arrested Matthew Grant, 25, of Pembroke Pines, on four felony charges on Tuesday evening after the chase came to an end a little after 8:30 p.m. in the city’s Little Havana neighborhood.

According to the Miami Police Department, an officer saw Grant driving a Hyundai when he ran the stop sign and red light in the area of Southwest 24th Avenue and Eighth Street and couldn’t catch up to him before he crashed into another vehicle at Southwest 21st Avenue and Sixth Street and kept driving, going the wrong way.

The other driver in that crash had to be hospitalized, police said.

The MPD arrest report states that the officer turned on his or her lights and chased Grant, who eventually made it to Southwest 17th Avenue, where he rear-ended a pickup truck stopped at a red light near Seventh Street. Grant, police said, was “attempting to go over the median, which was full of shrubbery.”

Authorities said Grant ran out of the Hyundai and eventually “gave up” as the officer chased him.

Police said another officer found the black Louis Vuitton bag, containing “a crystal meth pipe with suspected crystal meth residue, a lighter and a bag of suspected crystal meth.”

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“There was also a baby bottle and a Sprite bottle with suspected codeine and promethazine inside the car,” the report states.

That cough syrup concoction is commonly known by the street name “purple drank.”

Officers arrested Grant on two felony drug charges, along with felony counts of fleeing and eluding and hit-and-run without serious injury.

He also faces misdemeanor charges of resisting arrest and possessing drug paraphernalia with intent to use.

As of Wednesday afternoon, Grant was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on an $11,000 bond.

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