ST PETERSBURG - St. Petersburg Police responded to a complaint of drug use behind a business on Monday morning. When they arrived, the officers observed a man and a woman smoking a substance in a pipe they were sharing.

The officers detained both the man and the woman and processed the pipe and drugs in their immediate possession.

Branda Meeks was charged with possession of a controlled substance along with William Rizzo. Both were then taken to the Pinellas County Jail.

What we know:

The detention staff at the Pinellas County Jail screen every incoming inmate for weapons and illegal substances.

As Meeks was being processed, the detention staff discovered that she had stashed a metal push rod in her bra.

According to the arrest affidavit, the push rod had drug residue and was consi

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