A Water Oak woman was arrested with drugs and a lipstick stun gun after a traffic stop on U.S. 301.
Melissa Jollene Harker, 43, who lives at 665 Cedar Lane at the 55+ community in Lady Lake, was a passenger in a 2000 Honda Accord which was pulled over at 4:37 p.m. Tuesday in the vicinity of U.S. 301 and State Road 44 in Wildwood, according to an arrest report from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office. The Honda Accord had a license plate which had been assigned to a 1996 GMC pickup.
A K-9 unit was summoned to the scene and the dog alerted on the vehicle, indicating the likely presence of drugs. A plastic container concealed in a drink cup in the vehicle center console was found to contain methamphetamine. A glass pipe was found on the front passenger floorboard.
A check of Harker’s purse turned up a lipstick stun gun electric weapon.
“The stun gun was functional and a dangerous weapon,” the deputy wrote in the arrest report.
After Harker was taken into custody, she admitted she had drugs concealed in her underwear. She removed a bag that contained eight morphine pills, marijuana and methamphetamine.
A check revealed Harker had been convicted in 2006 in Lake County on charges of making threats against a public servant and possession of cocaine.
She was taken in on multiple drug charges and possession of a weapon by a convicted felon. Harker was booked on $4,200 bond at the Sumter County Detention Center.
