Editors Note: This article was originally published in the Aug. 30, 2023 issue of the Chronicle Progress. Some information may be outdated.
Suspect entered plea deal in July arrest after deputy confronted her at gas station
A county sheriff’s deputy was forced to break through a woman’s driver-side rear window Sunday after she allegedly passed out in her vehicle and drove it into a power pole.
Police were called after reports of a vehicle blocking the entrance to a Delta grocery store. As police were arriving on scene a deputy watched the suspect car drive off, head across the store’s parking lot and into a pole across the street, sending nearby stacked tires tumbling across the lot.
When the deputy gained entrance into the vehicle he noted the driver was snoring. But when he tried to wake the 29-year-old woman, she wouldn’t respond. The deputy then administered a dose of Narcan, not once, but twice, to revive the woman, according to a sheriff’s probable cause statement about the incident.
As deputies waited for an ambulance, they allegedly noted a few objects of suspected drug paraphernalia, including a tooter and multiple squares of tin foil, including one with burnt residue.
When the woman awoke, deputies asked her what she was imbibing and she allegedly said she had used fentanyl.
The woman, later identified as Kia Allene Grant, refused medical treatment but was advised she was being taken to the hospital for a blood draw. Deputies applied for a search warrant to take her blood and were approved before she later gave voluntary consent.
Grant was later booked into the Millard County Jail on charges of impaired driving and possession of drug paraphernalia, both Class B misdemeanors as well as possession of a controlled substance, a Class A misdemeanor. Grant also received two traffic citations, one for no insurance and the other for failure to stay in her lane of traffic.
A Fourth District Court magistrate ordered Grant held in lieu of posting $1,500 bail, according to court records.
In July, Grant had entered into a plea agreement on drug charges related to a July 5 arrest where she was found in possession of suspected fake oxycodone pills and fentanyl, according to court records.
That incident started when a deputy happened to walk into a gas station in Delta where Grant was working and witnessed her swaying back and forth and exhibiting signs of intoxication.
“Kia fell asleep two additional times while she was ringing up the item from my purchase,” the deputy in that arrest wrote in a probable cause statement filed with the court.
As part of Grant’s plea agreement stemming from that case, two Class A misdemeanor charges were set to be held in abeyance for the next 18 months while four additional criminal charges were dismissed.
As part of the agreement, she was ordered not to commit any further violations, pay court fees, complete a substance abuse assessment and complete whatever treatment was ordered within 180 days. The charges would have been dropped upon successful completion of the agreement.
Grant signed the plea deal on July 26.
