Kaitlyn Rose Clower

LIVE OAK — A traffic stop near the Live Oak Walmart Supercenter on Dec. 9 led to the arrest of an O’Brien woman on drug charges.

According to the Live Oak Police Department, an officer had a car pulled over along U.S. Highway 129 when Kaitlyn Rose Clower, 20, failed to move over and nearly struck the officer.

The LOPD report states the officer immediately concluded the stop and initiated a traffic stop on Clower in the Walmart parking lot.

After making contact with the suspect, the officer smelled burnt marijuana coming from the vehicle, according to the report.

The report states the suspect’s hands were shaking, she failed to make eye contact and her chest was visibly beating a fast pace.

During a search of the suspect’s vehicle, the officer found a purse in the back seat that contained a pouch with 526 pills in 21 bags, according to the repot.

The report states that 20 bags contained 25 pills each, while one bag contained 26 pills.

According to the report, 276 pills were identified as cyclobenzaprine, a prescription-only pill with the other 250 identified as a generic alternative of cyclobenzaprine, which is also a prescription medicine.

The suspect allegedly admitted the pills were hers and were for pain medicine for her hip, according to the report.

The report states the suspect allegedly said she had a prescription, but just never keeps them in a bottle.

The suspect was not able to provide the officer with a “legitimate answer” as to why the medicine was packaged individually, according to the report.

The officer also found a marijuana stem in the back driver side door panel, to which the suspect alleged that friends had smoked in the car the previous day, the report states.

Clower was charged with possession of a prescription drug with intent to sell.