Saturday, December 28, 2024

Joplin woman charged with DWI, meth possession


A 1 p.m. January 28 arraignment is scheduled in Newton County Circuit Court for a Joplin woman charged with driving while intoxicated and possession of a controlled substance.

Melissa Lynn Draper (DOB 1981) was arrested following a 12:45 a.m. Friday traffic stop by the Joplin Police Department, which is detailed in the probable cause statement:

I contacted Cpl. Wright who witnessed a red passenger car cross over the center double yellow line in the roadway into the oncoming lane of travel. 







He made a car stop at this location and believed the driver was impaired. I contacted the driver, Melissa Draper, who consented to standardized field sobriety testing and she displayed multiple clues to indicate impairment. Her speech was slow and slurred. and her eyes were glassy. 

Ms. Draper admitted to using valium, cannibis and methamphetamine. Ms. Draper submitted a chemical test of' her blood under implied consent. 








During an inventory of the vehicle, a glass smoking pipe with a white residue was located in the center console of the vehicle. A clear plastic baggie was located in the glove box that contained a white crystal-like substance that tested positive for methamphetamine using the department's Truenarc tester. 

After Miranda had been read, Ms. Draper admitted the pipe and baggie were hers.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Melissa Lynn Draper - Wow - A deadly combination of Alcohol and Meth - Thank goodness she didn't kill or injure others out on the highway, because you or your Family may have not been here for the New Years - and someone may have been planning your Funeral(s).

Again Liberals, where do you think the majority of Drugs, Meth, Cocaine, Heroin, and Fentanyl is coming from - South of the Border - through Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and California - the U.S. States that Borders Mexico - then straight into Missouri on the Interstate, Killing / Overdosing and causing Addictions and other Crimes along the way. So - WHY CLOSE THE BORDERS?

Kansas City Star - By Joseph Hernandez, By Joseph Hernandez
May 07, 2024 6:00 AM
Why Missouri has No. 6 worst drug problem in US, study says - Missouri has one of the worst drug problems in the country. This Impact on Missouri Costs Missouri Millions and Millions of Dollars - and Causes Untold Loss of Life, Damage, and Ruin for Missouri Citizens.

Since the Biden - Harris Administration - has done NOTHING - in the last 4-Years to Close the Border and Stop the Flow of Illegal Aliens and Drugs - the Drug situation has excelled too enormous amounts of Illegal Drugs entering our Country -

Harris Makes Unsupported Claim About Fentanyl Flows - More LIES BY THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION - - WHEN WILL YOU ALL SEE THE TRUTH ABOUT THEM???

“And the numbers today, because of what we have done, we have cut the flow of illegal immigration by half. We have cut the flow of fentanyl by half,” Harris said in a “60 Minutes” interview that aired Oct. 7, 2024.

Federal data do not show that “the flow” or “intake” of illegal fentanyl into the United States has been cut “by half” during the Biden-Harris administration, as Vice President Kamala Harris claimed in television interviews.

Of course some may say this Boring, but it is the Truth - and your Failure to Recognize and Understand the Truth does not Constitute the Fact this is what has happened under the Biden - Harris Administration and why we need Closed Borders - This affects everyone -

Ar Low said...

"Kids, this-piece-of-paper's-got-47-words-37-sentences-58-words-we-wanna-
know-details-of-the-crime-time-of-the-crime-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-
you-gotta-say-pertaining-to-and-about-the-crime-I-want-to-know-arresting-
officer's-name-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-you-gotta-say", and talked for
forty-five minutes and nobody understood a word that he said, but we had
fun filling out the forms and playing with the pencils on the bench there,
and I filled out the massacre with the four part harmony, and wrote it
down there, just like it was, and everything was fine and I put down the
pencil, and I turned over the piece of paper, and there, there on the
other side, in the middle of the other side, away from everything else on
the other side, in parentheses, capital letters, quotated, read the
following words:

Anonymous said...

Ar Low - Are you Drinking Alcohol and Taking Meth too?

Thanks for implying that you need - the Who, What, Where, When, Why and How - Often referred to as the 5Ws and H Questions: - or the Best Practices of Writers!

Since your Issues seems to be on the Facts You Don't Have - Instead of Commenting on the Article that was Presented - I thought I would Educate You on how to Find that Information out for Yourself -

Case Net - https://www.courts.mo.gov/cnet/welcome.do
Where you can do you own Searches -

Or - Here is the Specific Link on Melissa Lynn Draper's Current Charges.
Current Case Number - 24NW-CR02090 - ST V MELISSA LYNN DRAPER (E-CASE) -

Go to Link Below and Click on Docket Entries Tab and you will see - "Probably Cause, Complaint Filed, Judge/Clerk Note, Criminal Summons Issued - Documents" - Which you can click on an Open Up the PDF - Court Documents for your Reading - Which will Answer Your Questions.

https://www.courts.mo.gov/cnet/cases/newHeader.do?inputVO.caseNumber=24NW-CR02090&inputVO.courtId=SMPDB0001_CT40#header