Woman arrested on drug charges after traffic stop

A Scott City woman was arrested Thursday after allegedly failing three field sobriety tests, and she also was charged with felony possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute when 249 pills were found in her possession.

Morley, Missouri, police chief Austin Kight stopped Lisa Diane Walls, 49, for crossing the fog line several times as she was driving, Kight wrote in a probable-cause report.

Walls admitted to taking a Xanax 20 minutes before the stop, and she failed three sobriety tests at the scene and a urine test at the jail, according to the report.

She had 24 Xanax pills in a Tylenol container, 154 Xanax pills in a battle for 120, 53 hydrocodone pills without a prescription, 14 oxycodone pills within a prescription filled Dec. 24 for 150 pills and four hydrocodone pills in a prescription bottle for Zanaflex.

Pertinent address:

Morley, Mo.