What began as a traffic stop over a license tag light early Thursday morning ended with a woman admitting she was hiding meth in her vagina, according to sheriff’s deputies.
A Berkeley County sheriff’s deputy with his police dog, Fox, pulled behind a car after the vehicle committed a couple traffic violations, the sheriff’s office said in a report on social media. The report did not identify the violations, but said the officer decided to pull the car over when he noticed its tag light wasn’t working. At first, the driver didn’t pull over but eventually came to a stop.
The sheriff’s office identified the woman behind the wheel as 31-year-old Melanie Johnson. While the deputy spoke with her, the sheriff’s office said, “reasonable suspicion was present,” and the deputy asked to search the car. Johnson refused. The deputy got Fox on the job and conducted a free air sniff around the car. Fox smelled drugs, according to the sheriff’s report.
The deputy arrested Johnson and read her the Miranda Rights. Johnson then told deputies she had meth inside her female body cavity, according to the police. She removed a blue plastic bag containing about five grams of a crystal-like substance from inside herself.
With that as their probable cause, deputies searched the car and found another gram of the crystal-like substance.
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