A woman out of Pulaski County who was arrested last week, has been charged with drug trafficking.

 

Just after midnight on Friday, July 15th, Pulaski County Sheriff’s Deputies pulled over a vehicle in which 48-year-old Karen Michelle Burton was a passenger. She was arrested on an outstanding indictment warrant for trafficking in a controlled substance.

 

Upon reaching the Pulaski County Detention Center, Burton was asked multiple times if she had anything illegal on her person, to which she told officers she had nothing on her. During her processing, however, a deputy jailer discovered a baggie containing over 7.5 grams of what is suspected to be meth.

 

Burton has been charged with trafficking in a controlled substance, promoting contraband, and tampering with physical evidence.

 

She currently remains in the Pulaski County Detention Center.