Police: Woman with meth pipe, stolen cheesecake arrested in Kansas City hospital
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - The Platte County Sheriff’s Office has one woman in custody who is accused of stealing from a hospital and carrying drugs.
46-year-old Emily Cooper was arrested on Dec. 27 after a Saint Luke’s Hospital employee reported seeing who he believed to be an elderly woman stealing from the cafeteria.
Responding deputies said they detained Cooper in the cafeteria and she gave them a fake name. When they told her she could not leave because they suspected she had stolen, she said she was going to throw some trash away and instead “began sprinting out the emergency department doors.”
The deputies caught Cooper and searched her before taking her to the Platte County Detention Center.
According to court documents, the search uncovered what later tested as methamphetamine stored in a napkin and a plastic baggie. They found more drugs wrapped in a bit of tin foil, which later tested as either methamphetamine or fentanyl.
In total, there were approximately 1.2 grams of drugs in Cooper’s possession, along with a glass smoking pipe. Deputies also recovered a slice of peanut butter cheesecake that she is accused of stealing from the hospital cafeteria.
Cooper was booked into county jail on four charges and is being held on a $20,000 bond:
- Possession of a controlled substance (felony)
- Resisting/interfering with arrest for a felony (felony)
- Stealing with a value under $150 (misdemeanor)
- Unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia (misdemeanor)
Her bond review hearing is scheduled for Jan. 7.
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