BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – A Palm Bay woman was arrested over the weekend after she was caught with cocaine in her “lower region” after a traffic stop, according to the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office.
In a release, the sheriff’s office revealed that the woman — identified as Reagan Cox, 30 — had been pulled over and arrested on a charge of resisting without violence on Saturday morning.
But when she was being processed at the jail, the scanner caught an “abnormality” in her “Jail Purse,” deputies added.
“Our Corrections Deputies moved Cox to a change out room where she was observed trying to cover her buttocks area with her hand,” the release reads. “After moving her hand, a baggie dropped to the floor containing approximately 3.8 grams of cocaine!!”
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Once the baggie dropped to the floor, though, Cox spontaneously uttered that she didn’t know anything about the drugs and that someone must have put it in there during an “intimate encounter,” the sheriff’s office reported.
As a result of the incident, Cox now faces an additional charge of introducing a controlled substance into a detention facility.
“Folks, if not realizing that someone left cocaine in your ‘Jail Purse’ is not a good enough reminder to not do drugs, then I don’t know what is!!” Sheriff Wayne Ivey stated.