A Lakeview woman, 60-year-old Cynthia Lynn Ferguson, has been sentenced to three years of supervised probation on a felony count of possession of drug paraphernalia and one year of supervised probation on a misdemeanor count of possession of a controlled substance, marijuana. The charges stem from a traffic stop by an Arkansas State Police trooper for an expired license plate in January in a Marion County nursing home parking lot.
The sentence came last month in Marion County Circuit Court following a negotiated plea leading to two felony counts of possession of drug paraphernalia being nolle prossed or dismissed.
According to the probable cause affidavit filed January 19th, the trooper stopped the vehicle and learned the passenger in the rear seat of the vehicle, 59-year-old Cynthia Lynn Ferguson, was the owner of the car.
Permission to search the vehicle was granted. As the search began, the trooper was joined by officers from the Mountain Home Police Department and the Arkansas State Police. The police officer retrieved a glass smoking pipe with residue consistent with the ingestion of methamphetamine from the grass adjacent to the vehicle. He had noticed Ferguson tossing the pipe as she exited the vehicle.
A cigarette pack, with partially smoked marijuana, was located in the glovebox of the vehicle. A second glass pipe appearing to have been used to smoke methamphetamine was found in Ferguson’s handbag, along with digital scales with white crystal residue on them field testing positive for methamphetamine.
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