IZARD COUNTY, AR (ECNN) – The Izard County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest of a woman on drug charges.
According to court documents filed within the county, Drug Task Force Special Agent Blake Cruz traveled to the Izard County Sheriff’s Department to work a drug-related case that he was advised of the day before.
According to a statement of probable cause by Deputy Evan Jones, he was dispatched to a one-vehicle crash with injury on Campground Road in Oxford.
Dispatch advised the deputy that the first responder teams were on the scene and couldn’t locate anyone at the crash site, but it was later relayed that a woman had returned to the scene.
Once Deputy Jones arrived at the crash site, he observed a Chevrolet Impala in a field that had run through a barbed-wire fence.
He also observed a woman staggering on the road and was rambling incoherently.
The woman identified herself as 38-year-old Christina Copes and said that her husband, Timothy Copes, was the driver who crashed the vehicle.
When asked where her husband was, she stated that she did not know.
During the time of the incident, Timothy Copes was in the Izard County Detention Center.
Copes failed to mention her 10-year-old daughter was in the car at the time of the crash.
The child left the scene and traveled to a nearby residence for help, saying that she and her mother had been in an accident, and her mother was unresponsive.
Copes child stated that her mother’s eyes began “rolling,” and she began “shaking.”
The child also said that when her mother became unresponsive, she grabbed the steering wheel, but Copes’ foot was still on the accelerator, and that’s when they crashed through the fence.
Copes was taken to the Izard County Detention Center, and that’s when authorities found a baggie containing a white crystalline substance, as well as drug paraphernalia.
She is charged with careless and prohibited driving, endangering the welfare of a minor in the second degree, two counts for possession of a controlled substance, and two counts for possession of drug paraphernalia.
Her bond was set at $10,000.
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