A Summerfield couple found themselves behind bars late Monday night after a traffic stop for having only one working taillight.
A Marion County sheriff’s deputy stopped the silver Hyundai after the driver, 38-year-old Carrie Sue Hamilton, pulled into her driveway at 8811 SE 143rd Ln. The deputy noticed her hands were trembling when he spoke with her. She first told the deputy she was confused and didn’t know the area, then said she was staying at the residence with her boyfriend, a sheriff’s office report states.
Another deputy arrived and noticed a hypodermic needle and a plastic bag underneath the passenger side of the vehicle where 49-year-old Knud Erik Thomsen-Adserballe II was sitting. The bag contained a white powdery substance that field tested positive for PCP, the report says.
Deputies searched the vehicle and found several more hypodermic needles in various bags. They searched Hamilton’s purse and found a small plastic bag containing a white powdery substance that also tested positive for PCP, the report says.
After being read her rights, Hamilton denied knowledge of the hypodermic needles found inside the vehicle and the white powdery substance located inside her purse. She admitted that she and Thomsen-Adserballe “use illegal narcotics” and said they get them “by the middle school,” the report says.
After being read his rights, Thomsen-Adserballe claimed the substance found underneath the vehicle didn’t belong to him. When he was reminded of the in-car dash cameras in the patrol vehicles that were recording the traffic stop, he said, “If you got cameras, then you got me.” But he continued to claim he didn’t have possession of the substance nor the hypodermic needle, the report says.
When asked where he got the PCP, Thomsen-Adserballe paused for several seconds, then asked, “Can you let me go?” The deputy told him he was close to telling him where he got the drug and Thomsen-Adserballe replied, “Yeah but you guys aren’t going to let me go. If you let me go, I’ll give it to you.”
Both Thomsen-Adserballe and Hamilton were placed under arrest and transported to the Marion County Jail, where they each were charged with possession of a controlled substance without a prescription. Thomsen-Adserballe was being held on $3,000 bond and Hamilton on $2,000 bond. Both are due in court June 9 at 9 a.m. to answer to the charges.
