A woman from Florida claimed that a crack pipe discovered “protruding” from her vagina during a strip search was in fact a sex toy.
According to court documents acquired by The Smoking Gun, Carmela Ann Maines, 57, was arrested in Clearwater, Florida on Wednesday after failing to appear in court to face shoplifting allegations.
An arrest affidavit said that as Maines was being processed at the Pinellas County Jail, a body scan discovered a “anomaly” in her vaginal region.
During a strip search of the suspect, authorities discovered “a glass crack pipe protruding from the defendant’s vagina,” according to officers’ notes.
The affidavit states that Maine then took the contraband from her body and “intentionally threw it on the ground and steeped [sic] on it in an effort to destroy evidence.”
She then “tried to explain” that the item was really a sex toy, despite the fact that it was “consistent with a crack cocaine pipe” and coated in “burnt markings,” police noted.
According to the report, Maines was charged with having contraband in a county jail facility and tampering with evidence in connection with the event.
The source said that she was imprisoned after failing to post a $3,500 bail.
According to reports, Maines had been previously convicted of trespassing, disorderly conduct, fraud, battery, driving without a licence, and failing to appear in court.
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