Women found with 2 gallons of ‘date rape’ drug during Georgia traffic stop, cops say
An I-85 traffic stop for a car’s window tint violation led to the arrests of two Opelika, Alabama, women after sheriff’s investigators in Troup County, Georgia, found two gallons of “date rape” drug in the vehicle, authorities said.
Sheriff’s Lt. Nathan Taylor thought the suspects acted suspiciously after he pulled the car over Friday on Interstate 85’s southbound lanes near mile marker 8, so a K9 named “Chapo” came out for a “free-air sniff” around the vehicle and alerted to a “narcotic odor,” according to a news release.
Searching the car, investigators found about two gallons of GHB or gamma hydroxybutyrate, commonly called the “date rape” drug for being used surreptitiously to render victims unconscious, authorities said.
They identified the suspects as driver Ashley Prince, 47, and passenger Jessica Partridge, 26, each charged with possessing GHB with the intent to distribute it.
Sheriffs’ officers from Lee County, Alabama, and Harris and Muscogee County, Georgia, subsequently served a search warrant at Prince’s Opelika home, finding more GHB along with methamphetamine, LSD and marijuana, investigators said.