LAKEPORT, Calif. – A Lakeport woman was arrested Sunday on an outstanding warrant and drug charges.
Nicole Marta Rosales, also known as Nicole Andre, 38, was arrested Sunday morning, according to a report from Lt. Jason Ferguson of the Lakeport Police Department.
Ferguson said Lakeport Police officers, assisted by Lake County Sheriff's deputies, spotted Rosales at 11:35 a.m. Sunday in the parking lot of the Shell Gas Station, located at 975 S. Main St.
He said Rosales was contacted as she was preparing to leave in a white Ford Explorer.
After confirmation of the warrant, Rosales was arrested and secured in the back seat of a Lakeport Police vehicle, Ferguson said.
During a search of the Ford Explorer, a glass pipe with heavy white residue was located in a purse
belonging to Rosales. Officers believed the pipe to be paraphernalia used to ingest controlled substances and the white residue inside the pipe, to be methamphetamine, according to Ferguson.
In addition to the warrant, Ferguson said Rosales was charged with possession of a controlled substance and possession of paraphernalia.
Rosales was transported to the Hill Road Jail, where during a custodial search of her belongings, a white crystalline substance – believed to be crystal methamphetamine – a metal pipe believed to be paraphernalia and a white pill were located in her purse, Ferguson said.
Ferguson said the pill was later identified as Carisoprodol, a schedule IV narcotic and illegal to possess without a prescription.
Rosales was additionally charged with possession of a controlled substance and bringing a controlled substance into a jail, Ferguson said.
Nicole Rosales’ bail was set at $20,000. Jail records indicated she later posted the required percentage of bail and was released.