Felon, sought on warrants, faces drug charges
A Bonnerdale felon being sought on warrants now faces felony and misdemeanor drug charges after allegedly trespassing and trying to hide her identity Saturday night.
Candace Brook Thompson, 28, who lists a Mount Moriah Road address, was taken into custody shortly after 7 p.m. and charged with two felony counts of possession of a controlled substance and two felony counts of possession of drug paraphernalia, each punishable by up to six years in prison, and misdemeanor counts of possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia, each punishable by up to one year in jail.
Thompson, who had warrants for two counts of failure to appear, was being held on a $13,000 bond and was set to appear Monday in Garland County District Court.
According to the probable cause affidavit, shortly before 7 p.m. Saturday, Hot Springs police responded to a residence in the 100 block of South Street to a complaint of a woman trespassing on the property.
Officers made contact with a woman who fit the description who was standing near the front door of the residence. When asked, the woman provided a name and date of birth, but officers noted she “looked much younger” than the birth date she provided. When asked again about her age, she gave a false age that didn’t even match the date she had given.
She was detained at that point and finally, when Officer Cody Rollins again asked her for identification, she told him to look in her backpack. Rollins opened the backpack and found her wallet and began searching for ID.
As he opened her wallet, Rollins saw a loaded syringe in plain view so the woman, later identified as Thompson, was taken into custody. A check of her real name revealed the two warrants for her arrest.
In searching Thompson further, officers reportedly found a clear cylinder containing
0.4 gram of what later tested positive for meth, a silver spoon with meth residue, a glass pipe with residue, digital scales and a green cylinder with six pills later identified as alprazolam.
According to court records, Thompson was convicted of felony counts of fleeing and possession of a controlled substance on July
21, 2015, in Garland County Circuit Court and sentenced to three years’ probation.