A Coffee County Drug Unit officer stopped a vehicle for having a severely cracked windshield and ended up arresting a passenger on methamphetamine charges.
According to a report from the sheriff’s office, the stop happened around 1:30 p.m. on Friday, February 9, 2024. The officer was patrolling RS Brigmond Road and Clyde Rollins Road when he noticed the cracked windshield on a black Ford Ranger. The driver was identified as Thomas Irving Jackson. During the stop, the officer noticed that a passenger, Valerie Michelle Lammers, 52, of Douglas, was acting suspiciously. The officer knew Lammers from a previous encounter, the report says.
The officer smelled marijuana inside the truck. Because of the smell and Lammers’s probation status, the officer told Thomas he would search the vehicle. During the search, the officer found suspected methamphetamine in Lammers’s backpack. The substance field tested positive for methamphetamine and weighed approximately 1.28 grams.
Thomas was warned for having the cracked windshield and Lammers was taken to the Coffee County Jail on possession of methamphetamine charges. She has since been released.