Two Women Arrested for Trafficking Meth and Cocaine

Publish Date: November 15, 2018
Written by: Joni Money
Categories: Arrest | News

Birmingham, AL 11/15/2018

A traffic stop early yesterday morning led to the seizure of over a pound of methamphetamine and three ounces of cocaine as well as the arrest of two women from Florence, AL.

Adaisha Smith

Melynde Fagnes

Just after midnight on November 14, a member of the Sheriff’s Highway Safety Detail conducted the stop of a Chrysler 300 for a traffic violation on I-20W at mile marker 132 near Montevallo Road. A subsequent search of the vehicle revealed one pound two ounces of methamphetamine and three ounces of cocaine in the trunk of the car.

The occupants of the car 24-year-old Melynde Ane Fagnes and 29-year-old Adaisha Yelese Smith, both of Florence, AL, were arrested and charged with Trafficking Cocaine and Trafficking Methamphetamine. They were taken to the Jefferson County Jail and held on $30,000 bond each.

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