BEDFORD – A Norman woman was arrested on Sunday, Feb. 19th after a Bedford Police officer noticed a silver Lincoln Town car leaving the Circle K gas station at 16th and H streets.
The officer followed the vehicle which was traveling east on 16th Street and noticed the license plate light was hanging down partially obstructing the license plate.
The officer stopped the vehicle near the intersection of US 50 East and Deer Creek Estates.
The officer spoke to the driver and his passengers including 34-year-old Sylvia Flowers, of Norman.
The driver of the vehicle refused consent for officers to search the vehicle saying he didn’t want his grandson to have to get out of the vehicle.
The officer requested an Oolitic canine to conduct an air sniff of the vehicle. The dog alerted officers to possible drugs inside.
The driver told police there were no drugs inside the vehicle but did admit he had smoked marijuana in the vehicle earlier in the day.
The passengers exited the vehicle and officers conducted a probable cause search where they found a partially smoked cigarette containing a plant-like material on the driver’s side door of the vehicle and a rolled cigarette with a plant-like material on the front passenger floorboard. The plant-like material was later field tested and tested positive for marijuana.
In Flower’s purse, police found a glass vial containing crystal meth residue, a syringe, and a container housing THC wax.
Inside the trunk officers located a tarot card box containing another partially smoked hand-rolled marijuana cigarette and six individually wrapped packages containing marijuana.
Flowers was arrested on charges of unlawful possession of a syringe, and possession of marijuana.
Flowers told police she was pre-diabetic and used the syringe to prick her finger for testing her sugar level. She also stated she found the vial amongst old items and thought it was cool so she put it in her purse. Sylvia did take ownership of the tarot card box but initially denied the marijuana belonged to her.
When asked, Flowers did state she may have marijuana and rolling papers in her bra. Once Flowers was transported to the jail, correction officers located a baggie inside her bra that contained a plant-like material. They also located a half-smoked cigarette that contained a plant-like material in her cigarette pack. Those items were later processed into evidence.
The Department of Child Services was contacted.
