Two women were arrested recently on charges including drug trafficking after they were stopped by police for traffic infractions, according to court documents. On March 29, Floyd County Sheriff’s Deputy Kris Hall received a complaint reporting a woman with active warrants and a suspended license was driving in the McDowell area. Hall wrote that he located a vehicle fitting the description and attempted to conduct a traffic stop, but when he activated his emergency equipment, the driver, later identified as Rebecca A. Rose, 47, of Ky. 122, Hi Hat, began to flee.

The subsequent chase, Hall wrote, reached speeds of 80 mph and Rose was driving in a reckless manner all the way to her residence, where she exited and fled on foot.

The second arrest, according to court documents, occurred in the morning hours of March 30, when Kentucky State Police Trooper Hunter Kidd conducted a traffic stop on Ky. 80 on a vehicle driven by Jessica Brown, 42, of Old Maytown Road, Maytown, who was not wearing a seat belt. Brown, the citation said, could not provide ID and the trooper noticed she was sitting on a meth pipe. Upon search of the vehicle, according to the citation written by Trooper Bailey Combs, Kidd found three small individual bags of suspected methamphetamine, a bag of pills, a bag of marijuana and a large quantity of small empty bags.