Considerable cloudiness. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. Low near 70F. Winds light and variable..

Considerable cloudiness. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. Low near 70F. Winds light and variable.

A Jamestown woman was arrested after taking a nap while sitting in the road behind the wheel of a car.

Overton County Sheriff’s Deputy Dustin Farris was off duty Wednesday, Feb. 9 when he received a call from a local farmer informing him that a vehicle was stopped on Columbia Hill Road near Sunk Cane Road with a person inside “asleep at the wheel.”

Dep. Farris relayed the information to Dep. Mark Boyer at around 9:08 a.m. and upon arrival at the scene he observed a black Ford Focus in the middle of Columbia Hill Road about a mile from the Sunk Cane Road intersection. He then asked the driver, Amber Newberry, 27, of Jamestown, what was going on.

“She stated her vehicle broke down and she was waiting for someone to come by,” Dep. Boyer reported. “I asked if she had a driver’s license, and she stated she does not, that she has a learner’s permit.”

When she was asked to step out of the vehicle, a white pill allegedly fell out and landed next to the deputy’s foot.

“I asked what the pill was, and she stated it was a Trazodone,” Dep. Boyer reported. “I asked her if she was prescribed Trazodone, and she stated she was not, that she gets them from a friend.

“I asked her if there was any more in the vehicle and she said, ‘Oh yeah.’”

While doing an inventory of the vehicle for towing, Dep. Boyer allegedly found three pill bottles with Tramadol – 78 pills in one bottle, 170 in another, and the third was still sealed with 180 marked on the label.

I found three additioonal Tramadol loose in the vehicle and the pill that fell out was also a Tramadol,” Dep. Boyer reported. “I also located a cellophane pack off a cigarette pack with 90 Trazodone in it and was sealed by burning it.”

In her purse was allegedly found a spoon and a white crystalline substance believed to be meth.

The pill bottles with Tramadol were prescribed to another person, according to Dep. Boyer.

He was advised that Pickett County had two warrants for Amber Newberry, and he was also advised that her license was for ID only. The tag on the vehicle had an expiration date of March 2020 and did not come back to any vehicle, and the VIN on the car did not come back to any vehicle.

“Amber stated she bought the vehicle from someone in Georgia and had not registered it yet,” Dep. Boyer reported. “She stated the tag she got from ‘someplace’ and put it on the vehicle.

Newberry was transported to Overton County Jail on charges of Possession of a Schedule IV Substance, Possession of a Schedule II Substance, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, Possession of a Legend Drug Without a Prescription, Operating an Unregistered Vehicle on the Roadway, and Driving Without a License.

Sorry, there are no recent results for popular commented articles.