Late last month, what appeared to be a routine booking into the Marion County jail took a different path when a jailer conducting an inventory search discovered a substance with the appearance of broken glass in a suspect’s purse.
This month, under the terms of a plea agreement and statement filed Tuesday, 36-year-old Elizabeth Waddell of Ashdown has been sentenced to six years supervised probation on three felony charges in connection with the June incident.
The sentence came June 27th in Marion County Circuit Court following a negotiated plea to felony charges of possession of a controlled substance, methamphetamine; possession of drug paraphernalia and furnishing prohibited articles.
According to the probable cause affidavit, Waddell was being booked into the Marion County Detention Center following a Flippin Police Department officer’s attempt to locate a male subject. Waddell was found at the man’s residence.
A check of the Arkansas Crime Information Center database showed the Ashdown woman had a probation violation warrant with a $200,000 bond out of Montgomery County, Texas. As the officer was taking Waddell into custody, she asked to grab her purse, and he consented.
During Waddell’s booking into the jail, the jailer discovered a small baggie containing a white crystal like substance inside a wallet in her purse.
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