Carol L. Floyd, 26, of Hillsboro has been sentenced to 15 years in prison and ordered to pay a $100 fine after pleading guilty to eight felony drug charges and a misdemeanor drug paraphernalia charge. The charges stem from four incidents that occurred between 2019 and 2021 in Festus, Barnhart and Arnold, according to court documents.
Floyd pleaded guilty Feb. 14 to two felony charges of possession of a controlled substance and a felony charge of delivering a controlled substance tied to a January 2021 arrest in Festus and felony charges of delivering a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance following an April 2021 arrest in Barnhart. She also pleaded guilty to two felony charges of possession of a controlled substance and a misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia charge following a June 2019 arrest in Festus and to another felony possession of a controlled substance charge stemming from a December 2019 arrest in Arnold, court records said.
Jefferson County Div. 1 Circuit Judge Joseph Alfred Rathert sentenced Floyd to seven years in prison for the two drug possession charges and 10 years for the delivering a controlled substance charge for the January 2021 incident, and he sentenced her to 10 years for the delivery charge and seven years for the possession charge for the April 2021 incident. Rathert also sentenced Floyd to three years in prison for each of the possession charges and ordered her to pay a $100 fine for possession of drug paraphernalia for the June 2019 incident, and he sentenced her to five years in prison for the possession charge from the December 2019 arrest, according to court documents.
Floyd will serve the sentences she received for the 2021 charges concurrently, or at the same time, and she will serve the sentences stemming from the 2019 charges concurrently. However, she will serve the sentences stemming from the 2021 charges and the 2019 charges consecutively, for a total of 15 years, court records show.
Floyd may be eligible, though, to be released early and placed on probation if she successfully completes a 120-day treatment program, according to court documents.
Jefferson County assistant prosecuting attorney Lindsay E. Whalen handled the cases.
Floyd was arrested Jan. 26, 2021, following a traffic stop in the 3500 block of Plass Road in Festus. The Festus Police officer who stopped her found a syringe in the glovebox of the car she was driving as well as a plastic bag that had 66 capsules with a substance that appeared to be either heroin or fentanyl, and in Floyd’s purse, he found five capsules containing a powdery substance, a small scale and a zipper pouch that had a metal spoon, new and used cotton balls and a large rubber band strap, according to the probable-cause statement in the case.
The report also said Floyd was driving to a location on Mapaville-Hematite Road that is known for drug activity.
On April 4, 2021, a Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office deputy was called to a disturbance in the 1800 block of Meadowbrook Court in Barnhart and found Floyd in a 2015 Chevrolet Malibu that had a syringe with an unknown clear substance inside it. The deputy then searched the rest of the car and found capsules containing a white-powdery substance, a container labeled “P.T.C. Extracts” and a bag with a white crystal-like substance inside it. Floyd told the deputy that the capsules contained fentanyl, the container had a THC derivative in it and the bag was a “big bag of meth,” the report said.
Floyd was arrested June 22, 2019, in Festus and charged with two counts of felony possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia, and she was arrested Dec. 22, 2019, in Arnold and charged with possession of a controlled substance, court records said.
Floyd has two other felony charges pending for arrests in January 2020 in St. Louis County and October 2021 in Jefferson County. In St. Louis County, she was charged with possession of a controlled substance, a class D felony punishable by up to seven years in prison. In Jefferson County, she was charged with third-degree assault, a class E felony that carries a penalty of up to four years in prison, court records show.