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Allegedly intoxicated driver insists she was fed a ‘meth sandwich’

A woman who failed sobriety tests after getting pulled over while driving in Arkansas blamed the infraction on her brother — for feeding her a “meth sandwich,” according to cops.

Elizabeth Marie Catlett, 29, was stopped in Hot Springs for driving without headlights in the dark at 6:30 a.m. Sunday — getting searched because of the smell of marijuana and her “quick, nervous manner,” according to police documents obtained by the Sentinel-Record.

When cops found baggies in her pocket, she quickly insisted it was not hers and “someone else put it there,” the documents say.

She then warned that if she “pops hot” in sobriety tests, it was because her brother “fed her a sandwich contaminated with meth” when she visited him in a hospital, according to the probable cause affidavit.





Catlett — who failed three field sobriety tests — also suggested her brother may have drugged her drink, saying the hospital visit left her feeling like “when she used to use meth,” according to the report.

Officers, however, noted Catlett had track marks and damaged teeth consistent with “frequent narcotics usage.”

Her passenger, Don Russell Furr, 33 — who told cops there was “ICE” and a “meth shake” in the car — also confessed that they took meth before going to the hospital, police say.

Catlett was charged with possession of meth with purpose to deliver, four counts of possession of drug paraphernalia, and a misdemeanor count of driving while intoxicated. She was held on a $14,500 bond.

Furr was also charged with possession and held on a $13,500 bond. Both are set to appear Monday in Garland County District Court.





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