ON FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2008, SHERIFF DAVID LUCAS AND INVESTIGATOR RICKY MORALES STOPPED A VEHICLE ON MALCOLM AVENUE IN NEWPORT AT THE FORMER WILLIAMS' STATION FOR DRIVING WITHOUT HEADLIGHTS. UPON MAKING CONTACT WITH THE DRIVER, TERRY BINKLEY OF NEWPORT, SHERIFF LUCAS DETERMINED THAT MR. BINKLEY'S DRIVER'S LICENSE WAS SUSPENDED. THE OFFICERS ALSO MADE CONTACT WITH THE PASSENGER, WHO WAS IDENTIFIED AS BEING, TAMMY WATSON OF NEWPORT, AND THE OFFICERS DETERMINED THAT HER DRIVER'S LICENSE WAS ALSO SUSPENDED.
SHERIFF LUCAS THEN OBTAINED CONSENT TO SEARCH THE VEHICLE. UPON THE OFFICERS CONDUCTING A SEARCH, A BAGGIE CONTAINING A SMALL AMOUNT OF MARIJUANA WAS DISCOVERED ALONG WITH OTHER ITEMS OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA. MR. BINKLEY ADMITTED TO HAVING KNOWLEDGE OF THE DRUG PARAPHERNALIA BEING IN THE VEHICLE. MS. WATSON ADVISED SHERIFF LUCAS THAT THE MARIJUANA BELONGED TO HER.
MS. WATSON WAS CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - MARIJUANA (3RD OFFENSE) AND POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA AND MR. BINKLEY WAS CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA, DRIVING WITHOUT HEADLIGHTS, NO SEAT BELT AND DRIVING ON A SUSPENDED DRIVER'S LICENSE. MS. WATSON APPEARED IN NEWPORT DISTRICT COURT ON THE CHARGES AND SHE WAS ORDERED TO APPEAR IN JACKSON COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT.