CLEARFIELD – A Hyde woman accused of selling methadone to an undercover officer waived her rights to three separate preliminary hearings on Wednesday.
In one case Marsha Carter is charged with manufacture or delivery or possession with intent to manufacture or deliver a controlled substance and intentional possession of a controlled substance by a person not registered. In the second case she’s charged with manufacture or delivery or possession with intent to manufacture or deliver a controlled substance. In the third case she’s charged with manufacture or delivery or possession with intent to manufacture or deliver a controlled substance and intentional possession of a controlled substance by a person not registered.
According to court documents the first controlled buy occurred on April 28, 2008. An undercover officer and CI met Carter at the Clearfield Hospital, where she was visiting someone. The arrangement was for the purchase of a 130 milligram bottle of methadone for $100.
From the hospital, the officer took Carter to her home. She reportedly invited the undercover officer into her home and produced a pre scri ption bottle marked methadone. She then transferred the liquid contents into a Tylenol PM bottle and told the officer that she needed the original bottle to refill the pre scri ption. The officer then handed her $100 in official funds. She gave the officer her home and cell phone numbers, telling the officer that she did not trust the CI.
The officer then took her back to the hospital and picked up the CI. The contents of the bottle were sent for lab testing and came back positive for methadone.
The second meeting took place on May 5, 2008. The undercover officer met the woman at Mary’s Place in Clearfield. She reportedly arrived after a phone conversation with another undercover officer in which she told him she had one bottle of methadone, with one dosage missing from it.
The meeting at Mary’s Place was set up and Marshall and the undercover officer reportedly went outside to his undercover vehicle. Court documents indicate that Carter handed the officer the original bottle for inspection. He opened it and smelled it. He told her it smelled okay and she poured the contents into a brown pre scri ption container with the label removed from it. She told him she wanted $70 for the bottle, which the undercover officer paid.
The contents of the bottle were later lab tested and came back as methadone.
The third controlled buy allegedly occurred on May 12, 2008. The undercover officer stated in his report that Marshall had contacted him stating that she had a bottle she wanted to sell for $80. He then went to her residence in Hyde.
He noted that once inside her residence she produced a lock box on the table stating that the bottle was inside. The officer opened the box and observed a 130 milligram bottle of methadone with Carter’s name on it. She reportedly got another brown bottle, took the label off of it and poured the methadone from one pill bottle into the other. The undercover officer gave her the $80 and left.
Lab tests confirmed the contents of the bottle as methadone.
