An Ozark County woman was able to avoid prison time after working out a plea agreement with the state of Missouri. According to the Ozark County Times, 39-year-old Amanda Massey of Dora was given a four-year suspended imposition of sentence and placed on supervised probation by Circuit Judge Craig Carter after pleading guilty August 9th to a charge of possession of a controlled substance.
Massey was originally charged with resisting arrest and possession of methamphetamine following an incident in March when she allegedly used physical force in an attempt to evade arrest. According to the original probable cause statement, Ozark County Deputy Nick Jones was trying to serve a felony warrant on Missouri Route CC. When he attempted to identify a woman at the residence, she allegedly refused to obey direct commands and lunged for her purse across the room when Jones asked questions. Deputy Jones feared the woman, later identified as Massey, might be reaching for a weapon in the purse, and he reportedly ordered her to stop and put her hands behind her back. Massey ignored the orders and grabbed her purse. The deputy attempted to place her in handcuffs, but she pulled away as she attempted to flee, and a struggle ensued.
Deputy Jones told Massey he was placing her under arrest and ordered her to stop resisting, but the affidavit states the struggle continued as they went through a screen door and onto the ground and a concrete porch. Jones lost one set of handcuffs and a flashlight, and he was allegedly cut on his knees, right hand and left wrist. Jones was eventually able to place a second set of handcuffs on Massey’s wrists, and she reportedly apologized and told him she had a warrant. The deputy retrieved an I.D. card from the purse identifying the woman as Massey, and a computer check indicated she had an active, extraditable warrant in Wright County.
Jones asked Massey if she had any weapons or anything that could cut, stick or poke him, and Massey allegedly said she had a broken pipe in her pocket and needles in her purse. After she was transported to the Ozark County Sheriff’s Department, she reportedly removed the the needles and a black bag containing a broken pipe, an intact glass pipe, two baggies containing a white powdery substance, cotton swabs and two metal paraphernalia objects from her purse. Jones then removed the broken pipe from Massey’s left sweatshirt pocket. Both broken pipes allegedly field-tested positive for methamphetamine.
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