Burnsville Woman Charged with Hiding Meth in Bra

A Burnsville woman is charged with felony drug possession after police say they found methamphetamine hidden in her bra.

Melissa Rose Lind, 29, is facing a charge of fifth-degree drug possession, which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine.

Lind is free on her promise to make all future court appearances, but she was released to authorities in Scott County, where she is now accused of violating probation on a 2011 felony conviction for receiving stolen property.

According to the criminal complaint, signed by Minneapolis Police Sgt. Thomas Peterson, police were on patrol in the area of 27th Street East and 3rd Avenue South just after 4 a.m. May 13 when they spotted a man and woman walking down the middle of the road, carrying several large bags.

Police stopped to talk to them, and the man became “immediately aggressive and angry,” the complaint says. The woman, later identified as Lind, “seemed to be unable to stop her body from moving” and was “twitching and speaking incoherently,” according to Peterson’s account.

The man was searched and put in the back of the squad car. Police noticed that Lind – who had begun talking very fast, according to the complaint – had needle marks on the inside of her right forearm.

Lind asked an officer to move closer to her, and she whispered to him that she had a bag of meth inside her bra, according to the complaint. Police recovered a bag of a substance that tested positive for methamphetamine.

Lind’s criminal record includes a 2008 felony conviction for fifth-degree drug possession, for which she served 84 days in the Hennepin County workhouse.