Drifting driver found with a dozen muscle relaxers in grandmother’s car, charged with third DUI

38-year-old Bridgette Walker was charged with possession of meth, open container, Methocarbamol without a prescription, and joyriding when she took her grandmother’s unregistered vehicle on the highway while she had meth and 12 muscle relaxers.

On October 20th, Clarksville Officer Beck was conducting routine patrols when he witnessed a black Chevrolet S-10 Blazer fail to maintain its lane several times traveling down Southside Road. The vehicle came back as not on file when the officer ran it through the NCIC and that the vehicle had not been registered in a long time. The officer initiated a traffic stop and asked the driver, later identified as Bridgette Walker, for her license to which she advised she did not have it. A system check showed that Bridgette had a suspended license for failure to satisfy fees from May 2011 and she had no proof of insurance for the vehicle.

Bridgette Walker (MCSO)
Bridgette Walker (MCSO)

She told the officer that there were marijuana “roaches” in the ashtray of the vehicle when he asked if there was anything inside that he should know about. She gave him consent to search the vehicle and inside was a black cosmetic bag that contained a small bag of methamphetamine weighing at 0.4 grams. Also inside the cosmetic bag was a syringe, rolling papers, one swisher sweet cigar, a silver tray that had white residue on it, three small baggies, cellophane wrappers, and a cellophane bag which contained 12 pills identified as 500 mg Methocarbamol muscle relaxers. In the backseat of the vehicle were two open containers of alcoholic beverages. She had two prior driving on suspended license charges dated October 2016 and March 2017.

Later in the afternoon Officer Beck was dispatched a phone call request from Juanita Smithey, Bridgette’s grandmother. Juanita stated that Bridgette was given permission to drive the vehicle to ask about a tune-up. She advised that she was unaware that she had driven it anywhere else other than her friend’s house. Bridgette had asked Juanita about buying the vehicle and wanted to ask her friend about a tune-up. Juanita then informed her that she was to go nowhere other than the neighbor’s house.

Bridgette Walker was arrested and charged with joyriding, possession of methamphetamine, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of drugs without a prescription, failure to maintain lanes, compliance of financial responsibility, driving an unregistered vehicle, open container, and her third driving on a suspended license offense. She was released on a $17,000 bond.





Auldonie Duby

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