Seized drugs - Photo credit to LPS

By Dori Modney

City woman facing charges after vehicle search turns up drugs

Feb 4, 2022 | 3:22 PM

LETHBRIDGE, AB. — A 40 year old city woman has been charged as a result of the seizure of drugs following a vehicle search on Thursday (Feb 3) afternoon.

Around 2:00-pm that day, a Traffic Response Unit were called to a parked car with an unresponsive driver, along the 400-block of Mayor Magrath Drive South. A search of the vehicle located drugs valued at about $10,500, including: methamphetamine; fentanyl; cocaine; and 28 unknown pills. Officers also seized $770 in cash.

Carma Lynn Patterson, of Lethbridge, faces two counts of trafficking a controlled substance and was also issued an Immediate Roadside Sanction ‘fail.’ She was released after a Judicial Interim Release Hearing, with a scheduled court appearance of Feb. 28, 2022.