Woman Arrested With Warrants and Drug Possession

Newport police arrested a 32 year old woman Sunday night for possession of drugs, after they were called about a woman asleep in a car in the parking lot of the City Park grocery on Smith Street. Heather Ivey told police she had fallen asleep in the car while waiting on her boyfriend to come out of the store. Ivey had two warrants against her and gave police permission to check the vehicle. Ivey told police she wanted to be honest a\with them and that she had a Xanax bar and some “boy” in her wallet. Officers found several pills and baggies in that wallet/ The pills were later identified as three Gabapentin pills, one and two halves of Xanax bars, and two baggies of a powdery substance identified as heroin. Ivey was arrested and charged with her outstanding warrants plus possession schedule I, IV and V narcotics.