A Flippin woman, 23-year-old Veronica Edkins, has been arrested and charged with a felony drug offense after she allegedly concealed methamphetamine in her undergarment.
According to the probable cause affidavit, on Christmas, law enforcement responded to a Mountain Home apartment complex where Edkins had requested an ambulance after injuring her leg in a physical domestic incident with her boyfriend. She made her first appearance in Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday on crutches.
On the day of the incident, officers entered the front door of the apartment, after repeatedly knocking on windows and doors without any response. They found Edkins in the living room with two children and her boyfriend in the back bedroom with a third young child.
The woman’s boyfriend, bleeding from his left eye brow, told the officers the couple’s dispute began verbally over Edkins allegedly leaving a glass methamphetamine pipe on the floor where the children had access to it. He then told the officers the pipe was in Edkins’ bra.
Officers then requested she pull her undergarment out straight. As she grabbed her bra, officers noticed she was trying to pinch something inside to avoid it falling out. She then pulled out two black socks containing .4 of a gram of a white crystal-like substance.
Edkins said she punched her boyfriend because he was on top of her as they argued.
Edkins is charged with a felony count of possession of a controlled substance, methamphetamine, as well as misdemeanor counts of third-degree domestic battery and endangering the welfare of a minor in the second degree. Her bond was set at $2,500. She was released from the Baxter County Detention Center about two hours later.
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