August 25, 2015

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- A Dexter woman remains in the Stoddard County Jail under a $22,500 bond after police found marijuana and drug paraphernalia in her apartment at Crossroads Court at about 11:30 Thursday night, Aug. 20. According to a probable cause statement by Officer David Simptkins of the Dexter Police Department, officers responded to the apartment building on W. ...

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BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- A Dexter woman remains in the Stoddard County Jail under a $22,500 bond after police found marijuana and drug paraphernalia in her apartment at Crossroads Court at about 11:30 Thursday night, Aug. 20.

According to a probable cause statement by Officer David Simptkins of the Dexter Police Department, officers responded to the apartment building on W. Business 60 in reference to a resident there stating he could smell what he believed to be marijuana coming from apartment number 122.

When the officers arrived at the complex, they too, believed the odor coming from the apartment to be marijuana. When officers knocked on the door, they were met by Debra Sue Brown, 43, who agreed to let the officers in.

Another female was inside the apartment, and when officers informed the two that they could smell burning marijuana, both subjects first denied smoking pot, but soon recanted and admitted to having smoked marijuana earlier in the day.

According to Simptkins, Brown then picked up a "metal smoking device" from an end table, pulled the top off a decorative object and revealed to police a "green leafy substance." She confirmed to police that the substance was marijuana.

Simptkins then gained consent from Brown to search the residence, which turned up a white bottle containing multiple orange oval pills that Brown identified as Xanax.

"Debra stated she did not have a prescription for pills," Simptkins stated in the affidavit.

Police also located a brown wooden box designed to hold the smoking device they had found on the end table and a black zipped bag. Inside the bag, police found a razor blade, a straw, a glass smoking device with white residue on the inside and a clear wrapper that contained white powder residue inside.

Brown was placed in custody and informed officers that the clear wrapper that was confiscated would likely test positive for methamphetamine, but added that the black bag that was found did not belong to her.

The clear wrapper later tested positive for meth. The orange oval pills proved to be Alprozolam, a Schedule 3 drug.

Brown is charged with possession of a controlled substance (Alprozolam), possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine), possession of marijuana (under 35 grams), possession of drug paraphernalia (for meth) and possession of drug paraphernalia (for marijuana).

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