HARDY, Ky. — A Pike County woman was arrested after police say she fled from a roadblock with a half-pound of marijuana in her car.
Pike County Sheriff’s deputies were staging a checkpoint at Hardy just after 8 Thursday night, when they spotted a car approach at a high rate of speed, then turn around in a driveway and head off onto Narrows Branch Road instead.
Police pursued the car to conduct a traffic stop. The officer wrote in his report that the car pulled over and came to a complete stop, then took off again. A short time later, the car finally came to a stop in the middle of the road.
When police spoke to the driver, identified as Vivian Varney Bolen, 63, of Ransom, she reportedly told them she didn’t want to go through the roadblock and turned to go to a friend’s house instead.
However, the trooper detected a strong odor of marijuana coming from the car, so he asked her to step out. Bolen then allegedly admitted to having 8 oz. of marijuana in the back floorboard, and police found eight individually wrapped bags inside an airtight bag, along with a purse filled with cash.
The police report notes Bolen told police, “I wasn’t going to run from you guys, but I just didn’t want to lose my weed.”
She was arrested on charges of fleeing police and trafficking in marijuana.
