After spending 3 night's on remand awaiting her sentence, 24 year-old Quinn Melinda Arnold is out after making a partial payment on her court fine for trying to smuggle weed into the prison.
As we reported, The Conch Shell Bay resident went to prison to visit an inmate on Thursday. As was procedure, a female prison officer told her that she had to be searched before she entered. She stripped down and allowed the officer to search her, but when the officer told her that she had to check all body cavities, she told the officer that she was menstruating. Still, that didn't stop the officer from doing her job thoroughly, and she discovered a bag of weed in the cavity her privates.
The officer informed the police who arrested her and confiscated the drugs. It was weighed in her presence, which revealed that 10 grams - or 0.3 ounces - of weed was in the bag. Arnold was charged with possession of a controlled drug, and today, when she was arraigned before the Magistrate Hettie Mae Stewart, she pleaded guilty.
At today's adjournment, Magistrate Stewart sentenced her to pay a fine of $1,000, three hundred of which she had to pay upfront. She was able to meet that partial payment today, and left court a free woman.
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