A routine traffic stop by South Flex Officer Jason Mayo Wednesday night led to additional drug counts being placed against a woman who was free on bond from drug charges resulting from the Brooks Pharmacy investigation.
Helen Michelle Weathers, 33, of Hitching Post Lane, was booked early today on three counts of drug possession for resale and one count of drug possession without a prescription. A co-defendant, Jason Brian Ball, 29, of Old Hickory Boulevard in Brentwood, is charged with three counts of drug possession for resale and two counts of drug possession without a prescription.
At 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, Officer Mayo stopped Ball’s 2001 BMW on Antioch Pike because part of the license plate was covered with paper. Ball did not have a valid license, but Weathers, his passenger, did. Mayo asked Ball if he had anything illegal in the car. Ball said that he didn’t and consented to let Mayo check the vehicle. Weathers also consented to allow Mayo to check her purse.
Under the driver’s seat, Mayo found a blue unmarked pill bottle containing hydrocodone, Xanax and other pills. Inside Weathers’ purse, Mayo found pill bottles containing Xanax, oxycodone and other drugs. Between the two, approximately 400 pills were seized. Weathers also had social security and credit cards in the names of others inside her purse, as well as prescription labels in the names of others that had been peeled off pill bottles.
Weathers, who worked at Brooks Pharmacy, was arrested on January 31 and charged with one felony count of obtaining drugs by fraud for filling a prescription for the painkiller Lortab under another woman’s name and slipping the bottle of pills into her purse. On January 20, Metro narcotics detectives and TBI agents arrested Weathers after she was caught leaving Brooks Pharmacy with more than 800 hydrocodone pills stashed in a portable cooler. She was charged then with possession of narcotics for resale.
Bond for Weathers and Ball was set at $75,000 each.
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