A Brookfield woman faces a felony charge after prosecutors say she possessed methamphetamine inside the Macon County Detention Center.
Tammy Mayberry, 59, Brookfield, is charged with delivery or possession of a controlled substance at a county jail, a class D felony. The Macon County Prosecuting Attorney’s office filed the charge June 25 in Macon County Circuit Court, in case number 26MA-CR00191.
According to the complaint, Mayberry knowingly possessed methamphetamine on or about June 18 in or about the premises of the detention center, a county jail.
Detective Kade Singleton of the North Missouri Drug Task Force filed the probable cause statement. Singleton wrote that Mayberry was asked several times whether she had anything concealed on her person and that she kept a baggie of a crystal substance hidden in her bra until she was searched at the detention center by a female corrections officer. The baggie weighed about 1.6 grams, and a field test returned a positive result for methamphetamine, the statement says.
The same statement describes Mayberry as having been under arrest for trafficking narcotics at the time. No trafficking count appears in this case, and the filed documents provide no further detail about that arrest or the circumstances that brought her to the jail.
Bond was set at $20,000, cash only.
The charging documents list the range of punishment for a class D felony as one to seven years in prison; up to a year in county jail; a fine of up to $10,000; or both a fine and imprisonment.
A criminal charge is an allegation. Mayberry is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.