STARKE—A 41-year-old Starke woman was arrested after Bradford deputies accused her of destroying evidence during a drug raid.
Amanda Gail Godwin was arrested on December 27 for the December 19 offense.
According to a warrant affidavit, while the office’s drug task force and S.W.A.T. team conducted a narcotics search warrant in the Hampton-Theressa area, deputies issued callouts to anyone inside of the residence, and Godwin exited the home carrying a small child. Another woman came out with two children and a man also left the building.
While searching the Southeast 109th Street (also known as Meng Dairy Road) residence, deputies found a Roku camera in the home’s bedroom and viewed video captured on the device.
Detective Hunter Redding wrote in a warrant affidavit that the video shows Godwin and a co-defendant taking items from a bedroom dresser drawer and placing them into a box. The two women are then seen taking the box into a bathroom. The two defendants were also seen taking items from a closet to the bathroom. Redding reported that he found a glass pipe with drug residue in the closet, and another detective found plastic baggies in the toilet.
“Based on the findings,” Redding wrote, “it appeared as if illegal narcotics and/or drug paraphernalia was flushed down the toilet in an attempt to conceal/destroy evidence.”
