A trial date of February 20th has been set for Cynthia Piatt who faces a number of charges, including attempts to hide methamphetamine by passing the drug to a juvenile, sneaking drugs into the Baxter County jail in a Bible and attempting to fake drug tests in a variety of ways.
Piatt is alleged to have attempted to fake drug tests by providing a sample of water from a toilet and having another inmate provide urine to be sampled. Piatt had put the specimen in a shampoo bottle and attempted to hide it in a body cavity.
When a genuine sample was obtained from Piatt it proved positive for multiple controlled substances, including methamphetamine, according to the probable cause affidavit.
It is also alleged Piatt conspired with others to sneak methamphetamine, marijuana and tobacco to her live-in boyfriend, Mikel Short, who was an inmate in the jail at the time. Piatt and others are said to have concealed the contraband in a Bible.
The Bible was brought to the jail August 1st last year. A jailer inspected the book before it was given to Short and the contraband was found.
Piatt is also charged with giving her boyfriend’s 17-year-old daughter a plastic bag to hide when officers from the 14th Judicial District Drug Task Force made a compliance visit to the residence of Piatt and Short along County Road 508 August 8th last year.
The bag, which the daughter hid in her bra, held slightly more than 25 grams of methamphetamine.
Piatt was told by the officers conducting the compliance visit she was being arrested and needed to contact someone to pick up the three children in her care, including the 17-year-old.
She was allowed to have privacy while getting the children dressed. It was during this “privacy time” she allegedly passed the methamphetamine to the teenager.
The drug eventually wound up in Short’s possession in the Detention Center. According to court records, he is said to have described the incident to law officers after the drug was found.
All of the incidents have resulted in a long list of charges against Piatt.
She is currently an inmate in the McPherson Unit of the state prison system on an earlier conviction. Short is locked up in the North Central Unit at Calico Rock.
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