Jacquelin Gayla Sims age 44 of Trussell Road Monteagle was arrested by Manchester Officer Dustan Foster at the Goodwill Store in Manchester on Tuesday. According to the arrest warrant, Sims appeared to be in an intoxicated condition and was unsteady of her feet falling over the store displays. Allegedly the woman put on a shirt and left the store without paying for it. The shirt was valued at $4.92. The arrest warrant goes on to say that after being arrested Sims gave Officer Foster permission to look inside her purse. The officer says that he found a bag with 1.5 grams of a white powder inside. Foster says in the warrant, that Sims told him that the powder was meth. After Sims was arrested her property was inventoried at the Manchester Police Department where the officer allegedly found 33 twenty dollar bills, 4 five dollar bills, and 6 ten dollar bills that had been made to look U.S. currency.
Sims was charged and booked at the Coffee County Jail with Public Intoxication, Theft of Property (Shoplifting), Schedule II drug violation and Criminal Simulation. Her bond was set at $12,500 and she is set to appear in court on July 12, 2016.
