The Tooele County Attorney’s Office has filed charges against two individuals for dealing meth in Tooele.

On Feb. 18, agents from the Tooele County Drug Task Force were watching a residence on the southeast side of Tooele when a passenger vehicle pulled up to the front. A subject walked up to the vehicle, stayed for a few minutes, and then retreated to the residence. The vehicle then drove away, according to a probable cause statement.

The undercover officers followed the vehicle to Main Street then onto a side street, where the vehicle failed to signal and the officers initiated a traffic stop. While approaching the vehicle, the officers noticed a handgun on the center console and ordered the vehicle’s two occupants — identified as Christopher Fernandez, 24, and Ruby Williams, 23 — to exit the vehicle and put their hands on the roof.

The officers confiscated a baggie with just over two grams of meth from Williams, and upon doing so asked Fernandez to identify any other illegal substances the couple was carrying. Fernandez told the officers he had a pipe and a separate baggie of meth, according to court documents.

Officers then searched the vehicle and found a Pepsi can containing under a gram of meth, a metal bat and a knife. The handgun was later determined to be a plastic airsoft gun.

Williams and Fernandez were both placed under arrest and transported to the Tooele County Jail.

Fernandez, a Tooele resident, is no stranger to Tooele County law enforcement. He pled guilty in 2006 to three separate cases involving possession and distribution of a controlled substance, and pled guilty to the same charge in 2007. He served time in prison on all the cases. He was on probation at the time of the Feb. 18 incident and was sent back to prison.

In this case, Fernandez was charged with first-degree felony possession or use of a controlled substance, misdemeanor use or possession of drug paraphernalia, and failure to signal — a class C misdemeanor. He will make his first appearance in court on March 31.

Williams, a Magna resident, was charged with possession with the intent to distribute — a first-degree felony — and manufacturing or delivering drug paraphernalia, a three-degree felony.

She will make her first appearance in court on Friday.

Jamie Belnap: jamieb@tooeletranscript.com