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Leah McCamy Sellers, 28, is charged with felony drug possession not for personal use, tampering with evidence and possession of drug paraphernalia after she was arrested by Birmingham police on Dec. 10, 2016.

(Jefferson County Jail/McAdory High School)

A McAdory High School English teacher was arrested on a felony drug charge, tried to tamper with the evidence and then was surprised she couldn't take her marijuana with her into the Birmingham City Jail, according to police reports.

Leah McCamy Sellers, 28, was taken into custody by Birmingham police on Dec. 10, court records show. She is facing one felony charge and two misdemeanors. A police report says she was also involved in a hit-and-run prior to her arrest, but court records don't reflect any charges yet in that case.

Her attorney told AL.com they are investigating the possibility that Sellers was unknowingly drugged.

Just after 9 p.m. on Saturday, a Birmingham police officer was patrolling the city's Southside and saw two vehicles stopped. When he got to the scene, a woman told the officer Sellers had just rear-ended her vehicle and then said she saw Sellers laugh and "smoke something," according to Birmingham police report.

The officer spoke with Sellers who told him she drank a few beers. He put her in the back of his patrol car pending further investigation. The police report said Sellers was "very unsteady on her feet" and stumbled.

Police approached Seller's Toyota Rav and reported a strong odor of marijuana. They looked inside the SUV and saw several pill bottles in plain view - some of them with worn labels bearing Sellers' name. They also saw a glass pipe in the center sunglass holder which was warm to the touch and also smelled of marijuana, according to the report.

There was a second glass pipe in the passenger side door and a clear plastic bag with what appeared to be marijuana inside. Also in the vehicle was a large, clear plastic bag that contained eight individually-wrapped smaller baggies containing a green, leafy substance that looked and smelled like pot.

A female officer was summoned to the scene to search Sellers, and narcotics investigators also responded. Sellers was handcuffed with her hands behind her back, but police then noticed she had somehow moved the handcuffs to the front. She was trying to reach through the sliding window that separates the front and back seats of the patrol car in an attempt to tamper/destroy/conceal the evidence - the individually-wrapped marijuana bags - that had been put in the front seat of the patrol car, records claim.

The officer found that one of the pipes he had retrieved from Sellers' SUV was now in the back seat of the police cruiser and said Sellers was trying to hide it under her foot.

A short time later, the report states, police learned Sellers' vehicle had been involved in an earlier hit-and-run.

Once officers cleared up at the scene, Sellers requested to be taken to UAB Hospital and asked to see a doctor, but wouldn't tell police why she felt she needed medical attention. "After waiting several hours at UAB to see a doctor, the defendant only wanted to talk about her case with the doctor,'' the officer wrote in his report. "The doctor made several attempts to discuss medical matters, but the defendant would only ask him to get me to release her."

After leaving the hospital, Sellers was taken to the Birmingham City Jail. "As I was gathering the defendant's personal items and securing the evidence, the defendant boastfully stated, 'It (marijuana) should be an ounce,''' the officer wrote. "After securing it in order to enter the jail, that defendant was appalled that I was not bringing it in the jail with us."

Sellers is charged with first-degree possession of marijuana not for personal use, which is a felony. She is also charged with the misdemeanors of tampering with evidence and possession of drug paraphernalia. She was booked into the Jefferson County Jail on Sunday morning, and later released after posting $15,600 bond.

Efforts to reach school and Jefferson County Board of Education officials for comment weren't immediately successful. Sellers' attorney, Joe Basgier, told AL.com Sellers was placed on leave from her job Friday morning.

"We're going to ask the public to not rush to judgement on the case. We are investigating the possibility she was drugged the night in question,'' Basgier said. "This is a great teacher who is well respected by her co-employees and the administration."