Woman removing clothing in street is arrested on drug charges

Reports filed through the Lawrenceburg Police Department show that forty-five year old Melissa Diane Englett, of 324 Debus Street was taken into police custody just after 12:30 a.m.

Officers report that they responded to 1059 Old Florence Road to investigate when residents of an apartment complex reported a woman was "banging on the doors and windows."

Reports show that officers made contact with Englett in the parking lot and she told them she was "trying to get away from 'them'" She told officers that she needed a ride to a safe place. Afterwards, she reportedly became belligerent and began to walk away, turning down a side street.

Officers report that when they rounded the corner, they found Englett "running around in the dark, unlit street without part of her clothes." They said that her speech was slurred and she was "talking out of her head." She told officers repeatedly that someone was trying to kill her.

Officers report that Englett was arrested for her own safety and transported to the Lawrence County Detention Center. There, they found that she was in possession of a set of scales bearing methamphetamine residue, a meth pipe, razor blade, unknown type of pill, and two plastic bags containing a white crystal substance believed to be meth. The substance weighed in at 4.4 grams.

Englett was booked under charges of public intoxication, possession of drug paraphernalia, simple possession of a Schedule II narcotic, and possession of a Schedule II narcotic for the purpose of resale. Bond was set at $17,000. She is scheduled to answer the charges in General Sessions Court on October 6, 2016.