A man and woman from Memphis, Tennessee, were placed on five years of supervised probation after pleading guilty in a drug case from March 2019.
Stewart Grooms, 22, pleaded guilty during a hearing before Cole County Presiding Judge Pat Joyce to delivery of a controlled substance. Prosecutors dismissed a charge of unlawful use of a weapon.
Markesha Rivers, 22, pleaded guilty to a charge of possession of a controlled substance. Prosecutors amended the charge from delivery of a controlled substance.
Officers had served a narcotics search warrant in the 1300 block of East Dunklin Street, and Rivers was found in the home, according to Jefferson City Police Department probable cause statements.
Officers found three plastic containers the size of cereal boxes in kitchen cabinets that contained marijuana. Packaging materials, digital scales, a vacuum sealer and a money counter also were found. The marijuana seized weighed 1.5 pounds. There was also $26,000 in cash found along with a fully loaded Glock model 21 gun.
Rivers told officers she was a habitual user of marijuana and Grooms had gotten the drug for her.
Grooms was later stopped for a traffic violation on Christy Drive. He was taken into custody based on the evidence found at the East Dunklin Street residence. A search of his vehicle turned up another Glock firearm in the glove box, and officers found another pistol in the trunk of the vehicle. Loaded ammunition magazines and boxes of ammunition were also recovered.
Grooms told police he also was a habitual user of marijuana and all the marijuana in the home was for his personal use.