LIBERTY — A Girard woman made her appearance in court Thursday after telling Liberty police she swallowed fentanyl during a traffic stop.

Kayla Lipscomb, 34, was cited on a possession of drug paraphernalia charge.

According to the police report, an officer was on stationary patrol on Belmont Avenue when he noticed a Kia SUV traveling north and failing to dim its high-beam lights, noting that it had a non-functioning low-beam headlight on its passenger side.

Upon pulling the vehicle over and checking the driver and Lipscomb, its passenger, through LEADS, an active obstructing official business warrant for her arrest through the Lordstown Police Department was revealed.

Lipscomb was placed in handcuffs, and she admitted to “likely” having a crack pipe in the car.

A K-9 was called to the scene to conduct a probable cause search, where officers found a rubber band tourniquet, two glass pipes with narcotic residue and a black digital scale. A mushroom container with a white rock substance inside, a blue sphere container with a similar substance and a folded green piece of paper with an unknown white powder were found, too.

Lipscomb told officers she did not feel well, explaining that she had consumed a baggy of fentanyl when he pulled her and the driver over.

Lipscomb refused to be administered Narcan and told the officer she ate “one-half to one gram” of the narcotic, which belonged to the driver, who handed it to her when they were pulled over.

The officer reviewed his car camera footage, showing the baggy in her mouth at two different points, and concluded that she swallowed it while in police custody.

Lipscomb was eventually transported to the hospital and issued a summons. She’s set to appear back in court for pretrial March 23, court records show.