A Summerfield woman with an extensive criminal record who was once busted in a drug sting at the Lowe’s Home Improvement store in Lady Lake found herself back behind bars Tuesday afternoon.
Heather Nicole Meadows, 34, was arrested at the Marion County Jail in Ocala and charged with failure to appear for a pretrial conference on a charge of possessing or displaying a suspended, canceled or revoked driver’s license. She was released later Tuesday afternoon on her own recognizance and her next court date hasn’t yet been set, jail records show.
Meadows is no stranger to the legal system. In August 2017, while living in Weirsdale, she was arrested at the Lady Lake Lowe’s during an undercover operation and charged with selling and possessing methamphetamine to a confidential informant working with the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office Special Investigation Squad.
Meadows also has been housed in the Marion County Jail eight times since November 2011 on charges of petit theft, burglary, contempt of court, a warrant for grand theft, trafficking in methamphetamine, manufacture of methamphetamine, a Sumter County warrant for grand theft, violation of probation on a grand theft charge, disorderly conduct, failure to appear in Sumter County on a petit theft charge, violating probation on a petit theft charge and grand theft.
Meadows, who also used to live in Lady Lake, also spent time in a Florida state prison from Nov. 14, 2013 through April 18, 2015. In that case, she was sentenced to two years for grand theft of a motor vehicle and selling, manufacturing and distributing methamphetamine.
