Crime reports: Vicksburg woman faces felony meth charge

Published 2:33 pm Friday, January 29, 2021

A Vicksburg woman is facing a felony drug charge following a traffic stop early Friday.

Angela Hasty Jobe, 47, of Vicksburg was arrested Friday at 1:45 a.m. during a traffic stop near the intersection of Porter’s Chapel Road and Indiana Avenue. 

During the stop, a police K-9, trained in narcotics detection, alerted when it was walked around Jobe’s 2014 Chevrolet Silverado. Officers searched the truck and a quantity of methamphetamine was found.

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Jobe was charged with one count of possession of methamphetamine. During her initial court appearance in Vicksburg Municipal Court Friday, Judge Penny Lawson set Jobe’s bond at $50,000 and bound her case over to the grand jury.