A woman has been arrested on several charges after she was reportedly intoxicated at a local school.
College Station Police were called to IL Texas in the 3600 block of Longmire Drive, around 5:15pm on Wednesday, after an off-duty officer reported that a woman parked crooked in the school’s parking lot. The officer said he could smell marijuana coming from the car.
36-year-old Whitney Carol Carson, of Navasota, told officers she was at the school to pick up her daughter. Officers say she was unsteady on her feet, with delayed and slurred speech. She failed a field sobriety test.
A search of Carson’s car revealed a marijuana cigarette and officers found methamphetamine in her purse.
She claims she had taken prescription Bupropion and Buspirone at 7:00am that morning, and blamed her condition on those medications.
Because the drugs were found within 1,000 feet of the school, Carson was charged with Possession of Marijuana in a Drug-Free Zone and Possession of a Penalty Group 1 Controlled Substance in a Drug-Free Zone. She was also arrested for Driving While Intoxicated. A blood sample was obtained before she was booked into the Brazos County Jail where she is being held on $20,000 bond.