Scott County Sheriff Deputies arrested three people in two separate incidents on a variety of drug charges last Tuesday, Dec. 9.
Deputies Johnney Coomer and Danielle Vogt were patrolling on Highway 3 north around 2 p.m. when they saw a 2009 Honda Civic with an obscured rear window and a missing driver’s side mirror.
Pulling the driver over near the intersection of SR3 & 56, the driver, Travis Rose said that he was moving was the reason for the obscured rear window.
A passenger in the vehicle was Enola Williams, 40, of the 3900 block of N 2nd St. in Deputy. After Deputy Kyle West and his K-9 partner Charlie arrived at the scene, Charlie did a free air search of the exterior of the vehicle alerting on the passenger side. After Williams exited the vehicle, Deputy Coomer did not find any drugs in the vehicle. However, a clear plastic bag with crystal-like residue was found on the muddy ground where Williams had been standing.
Coomer reported in the probable cause affidavit, “I observed no other debris or trash around and this bag to be clean, not muddy or dirty.” Coomer conducted a field test on the crystal-like substance indicating it to be methamphetamine.”
When Coomer asked Williams about the bag, she informed the deputy it wasn’t hers and that the bag could have been tossed out of a passing vehicle or that Coomer had planted the bag as evidence.
Williams was booked into Scott County Jail at 3:19 p.m. and is facing felony charges of possession of methamphetamine with a prior dealing conviction and obstruction of justice
Circuit Court Magistrate Alison Frazier set her bond at $35,000.
Later that evening, acting on an anonymous tip of suspicious activity in a subdivision southeast of Austin, Deputies Charles Morgan and Isaac Stevenson went to 2654 Jeffrey Street around 7:30 p.m. where a Ford Ranger was parked in the driveway with the windows fogged up.
According to the tip, the caller knew the property to be abandoned and also advised he thought the two people inside the vehicle to be passed out.
Inside the vehicle officers found the driver, Ronald A. Strong, 65 of the 100 block of Audrey Lane and his passenger, Oma Jean White, 47, of the 800 block of N US 31, both in Austin.
When asked what he was doing in the driveway, Strong told Morgan that “he was just driving around” but did not respond when asked if he knew the property owner.
While talking to White, Morgan reported in the probable cause affidavit, that he saw next to the open passenger door a broken glass pipe with burnt residue.
Even though it about 25 degrees outside, the glass pipe was hot to the touch, Morgan reported.
Strong admitted to officers that he and White were smoking meth in the vehicle and that he still had some left in a box on the dash of the vehicle. Morgan located the cardboard box along with two cut straws containing an off-white powder residue, broken glass pipe, and a clear plastic bag containing an off-white crystal substance.
Strong said the pipe was his, but the meth was his and White’s.
The pair was transported to Scott County Jail. White was booked in at 8:12 p.m. where she faces felony charges of possession of methamphetamine, obstruction of justice, and misdemeanor charge of possession of drug paraphernalia.
Strong was booked into jail at 8:44 p.m. and faces felony possession of methamphetamine and misdemeanor charge of possession of drug paraphernalia.