A 31-year-old Arkansas woman is being held at Bayou Dorcheat Correctional Center (BDCC) following her arrest Tuesday by Springhill police on drug-related charges.

Springhill Chief of Police Will Lynd said Hannah Marie Yates of Magnolia is facing charges of possession of CDS Sch. II (Hydrocodone) and possession of CDS Sch. II (Ecstasy, five counts) when she was pulled over shortly after 7 p.m. for allegedly driving recklessly. Yates faces additional counts of resisting arrest and resisting by false information, Lynd said.

SPD Officer K. Rankins stopped Yates after she reportedly drove her vehicle through the parking lot of a local convenience store in an unsafe manner for the weather conditions, the Chief said. 

“The suspect reportedly told Officer Rankins she did not have a valid drivers license, and he asked her to exit the vehicle,” Lynd said. “After telling our officer there was nothing inside the vehicle that might be illegal, she denied a request to search. At that point, the officer requested our K9 officer for a ‘free air’ search and he alerted to narcotics on the driver’s side.”

Lynd said Officer Rankin recovered what proved to hydrocodone and ecstasy pills during a search of the suspect and she was placed in custody.  Resisting charges reportedly were added when the suspect struggled with officers, throwing herself to the ground and later kicking doors while inside the patrol unit.

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