BY ROGER SMITH
MOUNTAIN CITIZEN

INEZ — Police arrested two for trafficking meth and fentanyl before a female had time to hide the drugs inside her body.

Deputy David Adams with the Martin County Sheriff’s Office stopped a pickup Saturday around 1:30  a.m. on Route 3 in Inez for having a loud muffler and no light on the rear license plate.

Adams said the two occupants were moving around in the vehicle as he approached. When the deputy reached the window, he saw that the passenger, Kristi Dawn Fletcher, 33, of Inez, was holding something in her hand.

Fletcher told the deputy that the driver, 36-year-old Robert Moore of Inez, had told her to shove a bunch of baggies into her body, but she did not have time to do that before they got pulled over.

The baggies contained 3.06 grams of meth, 3.6 grams of fentanyl and five Valium 10 mg pills.

Fletcher said Moore also handed her money while giving her the drugs to hide and threw a set of red scales into her purse.

The two were lodged in the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center on charges of trafficking meth and fentanyl and possession of a controlled substance.