A Gun Barrel City man on parole who had previously been arrested on drug charges was taken into custody Tuesday after a traffic stop uncovered a large amount of methamphetamine, according to the Henderson County Sheriff’s Office.
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Luther Scott Bryson Sr., 50, was arrested when Narcotics Investigators and K-9 Deputies pulled over a red Ford pickup in the 200 block of Softwind Street in Gun Barrel City just before 3 p.m. on October 14, 2025.
During the investigation, authorities identified Bryson as a passenger in the vehicle. According to a Sheriff’s Office news release, he was found with a considerable amount of methamphetamine secreted on his person, as well as multiple transparent plastic baggies often used for packing narcotics for sale.
“He is the type of suspect this Office’s continuing campaign against narcotics is designed to catch,” the Sheriff’s Office stated in the release.
Bryson was placed in Henderson County Jail on charges of manufacturing or delivering a controlled substance. He is currently awaiting arraignment.
His bond has been set to $100,000.
According to jail records, Bryson Sr. has been in and out of Henderson County Jail since 2002 for narcotics offenses, forgery, theft, parole violations, and burglary.
