ELDORADO— Heather Jeannine Vaughn, 35, of 906 Murray St., of Eldorado, faces five criminal charges after police say she took her stash of drugs along with her on a shoplifting trip.
According to information filed in the case, Eldorado Police Officer Jack Johnson was dispatched to Big Johns on U.S. Rte. 45 in Eldorado on a report that store manager Brad Doughty caught Vaughn shoplifting and that he had her detained outside the store.
When Johnson arrived he spotted Vaughn milling around her mother’s vehicle.
“I observed Renee Gotkin, Vaughn’s mother standing in front of the vehicle with Brad Doughty, Karen Gowan and Alex Ego watching Vaughn,” Johnson said.
Doughty told the officer that he saw Vaughn putting Kool Aid liquid and an Axe Body Spray, valued at $9.24, in her purse and walking out the door.
When Johnson walked to the front passenger door where Vaughn was, he saw a large purse that was open and observed a small tin inside the purse with the lid off and a green leafy substance that appeared to be cannabis, which had spilled inside the purse.
Vaughn was taken into custody and transported to the Eldorado Police Department where Johnson attempted to remove the green leafy substance from her purse.
In doing so, Johnson found several pills and a “drug pipe.”
Vaughn was arrested on two preliminary counts of Unlawful Possession of a Controlled Substance identified as lorazepam and alprazolam, Retail Theft, Unlawful Possession of Cannabis and Unlawful Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.
This isn’t Vaughn’s first brush with the law.
She was charged with Theft and Misuse of a Credit Card in 2006.
After pleading to the misuse charge in return for the dismissal of the theft charge, she was sentenced to 24 months probation.
She was convicted of Fraud in 2009 and sentenced to another 24 months probation.
Vaughn still has a pending case in Saline County from 2012 wherein she is charged with Burglary and Theft.
Cash bond in Vaughn’s current case has been set in the case at $1,500.
Drug deliveries in housing
An Eldorado couple has been charged with delivering drugs in public housing.
According to information filed in the case, Casey Rector, 29 and David M. Rector, 28, both of 834 Big Four St., Eldorado, have been charged with one count of Unlawful Delivery of a Controlled Substance While in Residential Property Owned by a Public Housing Agency.
Authorities say that on July 3 Casey Rector, while at Choisser High Rise, Apt. 111, residential property owned by a public housing agency, located at 160 Dewey Rd., Eldorado, knowingly delivered to a confidential source a substance containing hydromorphine (dilaudid).
Then, according to authorities, David Rector did the exact same thing on July 11.
Both were booked into the Saline County Jail on $2,500 each.
IF David Rector makes bond his freedom will be short lived and he will more than likely be handed over to Hamilton County authorities and taken into custody for charges there.
He is charged in Hamilton with Unlawful Delivery of a Controlled Substance, less than 15 grams of hydromorphine and Unlawful Delivery of Methamphetamine, both to a confidential source on June 27.
He is also charged in Hamilton with one count of Unlawful Delivery of Methamphetamine, less than five grans, for allegedly on July 9 delivering to the same confidential source.
Cash bond in the Hamilton case has been set at $4,500.
Tools taken
John Russell Gilbert, 46, of 807 Nash St., Eldorado, has been charged with one count each of Burglary and Theft after authorities say on or about August 20 he entered a building belonging to Shawn M. Sivels, located at 85 Crossroads School Rd., Eldorado and stole property belonging to Sivels identified as miscellaneous tools valued at less that $500.
Cash bond in the case has been set at $2,000.
Hydrocodone
James R. Munds, 39, of 901 Alexander St., Eldorado, faces a pair of felony drug charges after authorities say on January 1, 2012 he committed the offenses of Unlawful Possession of a Controlled Substance identified as hydrocodone and Unlawful Delivery of a Controlled Substance when he delivered the hydrocodone to Joey R. Munds.
James Munds has been a pharmacy tech at Beck’s Drugs in Eldorado for quite some time.
He was released from custody after posting a $1,500 cash bond.