The Ohio State Highway Patrol investigated a case of a North Carolina woman who was stopped in her car in Ohio and was accused of cocaine possession.
Kimari Anderson, 35, appeared in her arraignment Wednesday and pleaded not guilty to an indictment charging one count of trafficking in cocaine and one count of possession of cocaine.
Both charges are felonies of the first degree, according to the Ohio Revised Code, and have a major drug offender specification.
“On Nov. 7, the Ohio State Highway Patrol did a routine traffic stop and stopped Anderson,” Athens County Prosecutor Keller Blackburn said in a news release.
“After doing a search of Anderson’s car, she is accused of being in possession of 198 grams of Cocaine.”
She has been incarcerated in the Southeastern Ohio Regional Jail since Nov. 8.
Judge L. Alan Goldsberry set her bond at $60,000 and she is ordered to stay in Ohio while the case is pending, according to the release.
Anderson is scheduled to appear in the Athens County Common Pleas Court for a pretrial hearing Dec. 20 and a jury trial Jan. 7.
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