NICEVILLE — A woman who told officers she occasionally smoked meth to “stay awake” was arrested for drug paraphernalia possession after being pulled over for a faulty tail light.

According to an arrest report from the Niceville Police Department, on Oct. 18 an officer travelling eastbound on State Road 20 observed a car with a “white light emitting from the passenger tail light.” The officer stopped the vehicle and asked the driver if he could search it, to which she provided consent.

Inside the woman’s Michael Kors purse, the officer found a glass methamphetamine pipe belonging to the driver. The woman told the officer she used the pipe occasionally to smoke meth “to help her stay awake.”

The woman was arrested and booked on charges of drug equipment possession, a misdemeanor.