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Two arrested on drug charges over weekend

Galesburg police officers arrested two individuals and recovered over two grams of methamphetamine and several pills following a weekend traffic stop. 

At around 11 a.m. on Saturday, officers pulled over a vehicle that did not have a front registration plate on Tompkins Street.

According to police reports, officers identified the driver, 33-year-old Samantha Woods of Galesburg, as having a suspended drivers license and arrested her.

Dispatch notified officers that the passenger of the vehicle, 36-year-old Jessica L. Maxwell of Farmington, was out on supervised release.

Both individuals were searched, with no contraband found on them.

Because of Maxwell’s supervised release, a bag found in the passenger side of the vehicle was done. Officers found shampoo and other toiletries, as well as a small purse containing meth.

Maxwell was arrested, and inadvertently gave officers cause for conducting a more thorough search of the vehicle when she outed Woods as having stashed something between the driver’s seat and the center console.

Wrapped up between the seat and console was a meth pipe. In the back seat officers found Woods’ purse with pills inside.

In total officers seized 2.5 grams of methamphetamine. In addition amphetamine, alprazolam, and clonazepam pills, as well as one marked “Watson 853” were found. Other unknown substances were found in resealable bags as was various paraphernalia.

Woods and Maxwell were taken to the Knox County Jail.

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