On Wednesday Officer Daniel Ray of the Manchester Police Department spotted a female behind the former Southern Family Foods on the Hillsboro Blvd.
According to a warrant, the officer spoke with the woman who stated that she was calling her mother. The officer states that the subject appeared nervous and impaired. In the warrant Officer Ray is said to have noticed a cut green straw in the passenger floorboard and asked the subject if she had anything illegal in the vehicle and would she allow police to search and she agreed. The woman then attempted to grab a blue bag. Officers took the bag and located numerous cut straws with residue allegedly on them along with 4 glass pipes with residue allegedly inside of them. The warrant goes on to state that police located 41.5 oxycodone pills in an Advil bottle and a cigarette pack. Supposedly a further search of the vehicle located 1.5 grams of a white crystal like substance allegedly thought to be methamphetamine in four separate plastic baggies. The warrant also indicates that officers located a set of scales, butane lighters, butane fuel, a grinder and a plastic squeeze container with what appeared to be residue.
Amy Louise Jones, age 34 of Shelbyville was charged with possession of schedule II and possession of drug paraphernalia. She was booked at the Coffee County Jail under a $10,500 bond. She has a court date of August 25.