EUSTIS, Florida— Two people are in the Lake County Jail on more than $100,000 bond for drug charges, including trafficking in methamphetamine, after Eustis Police Department’s K9 Mya sniffed out more than a pound of the drug.
Shortly after 2:45 p.m. Monday, Jamie Leigh Gregory, 36, drove past EPD on South Bay Street with her passenger, Robert L. Mullins, 48; Mullins was not wearing his seatbelt. Officers pulled the red pickup truck over and it stopped in the parking lot of a nearby funeral home, according to an arrest affidavit.
Gregory, of Eustis, and Mullins, of Dona Vista, abruptly jumped out of the truck as soon as it stopped and a large knife holstered to Mullins’s left side was quickly removed by one of the officers. Mullins admitted to having about 10 grams of marijuana in his pocket and handed it over to an officer while Mya and her handler walked around the truck.
Mya alerted to the front passenger side of the truck and officers found a black bag in the front passenger seat that contained a large bag of methamphetamine, weighing 456 grams—just over a pound. EPD also found 12 strips of suboxone and one Alprazolam pill. Neither Gregory nor Mullins would take ownership of the drugs and both denied knowing it was in the truck. Gregory did tell police she and Mullins had used methamphetamine with each other earlier in the day.
Mullins and Gregory were arrested for trafficking in methamphetamine more than 200 grams, possession of suboxone, possession of Alprazolam, and possess of drug paraphernalia. Mullins is facing an additional charge of possession marijuana and is being held on $106,000 bond. Gregory is being held on $105,000 bond.
