MITCHELL – A Mitchell woman was arrested on drug charges on Wednesday, May 31 after Mitchell Police officers responded to a report of an intoxicated woman at the Dollar General store on Main Street. The caller reported the woman was rolling on the ground and yelling. The caller then stated the woman got into a white Ford Ranger and was now hanging out the truck window.
When police arrived at 9:31 p.m. they located the vehicle in the parking lot with 32-year-old Alex Tomlinson inside. Police say she was acting erratically inside the truck and profusely sweating. Police say she was “digging” around in the truck as if looking for something and was told to stop. She was asked to step out of the truck.
At this time Lawrence County Sheriff’s Department deputy arrived to assist.
At this time, the Mitchell officer stepped inside the store to speak with an employee who witnessed the incident. She told police she was approached by a concerned customer who wanted her to call the police about a woman rolling around on the ground outside of the store. When she went outside to see what was going on she saw the woman hanging out the truck window and moving around inside the truck. She told police the woman was throwing her hands up and down and “appeared to not be in a normal state”.
Tomlinson failed several field sobriety tests. Inside the truck, there were miscellaneous items scattered around including money, clothing, vapes, and charging cables for electronic devices.
Tomlinson responded to police questions that there was not anything illegal in the vehicle. She was asked if officers could search the truck and she said “I’d rather you not”. A canine alerted officers to possible drugs in the vehicle.
That is when Tomlinson said she didn’t want to go to jail and then admitted there “may be something in her truck”. When asked what she said heroin.
Tomlinson then retrieved a plastic container under the driver’s seat and a backpack from the passenger floorboard and removed three syringes from it loaded with heroin.
Police found in the bed of the truck a duffle bag that contained a Tupperware-style container with crystal meth inside it.
Tomlinson continued to act erratically and was still profusely sweating, making erratic movements, and could hardly stand still. She told police she had been “using heroin frequently” and was “going to shoot up” prior to officers arriving on the scene but was unable to due to her “not being able to find a vein to inject the heroin into”.
Tomlinson was arrested on charges of unlawful possession of a syringe, possession of meth, possession of a narcotic drug, and public intoxication.
She was allowed to call her mother to retrieve her vehicle.
