By Record Searchlight staff
Originally published 08:52 a.m., May 1, 2009

MONTAGUE -- Siskiyou County Sheriff's deputies and drug enforcement agents arrested a 43-year-old U.S. Postal Service mail carrier on her rounds Thursday, charging her with possessing and selling drugs, according to a press statement.

Michelle Rene Crabill, of Yreka, was delivering mail on Airport Road northeast of Montague when Siskiyou County-wide Interagency Narcotic Task Force (SCINTF) agents stopped her.

Agents found 7.57 grams of methamphetamine packaged for sale, prescription drugs, documentation of sales, packaging material and a glass smoking pipe in her vehicle, according to the press statement.

SCINTF agents later searched Crabill's home in Yreka, where they found 34.8 grams of methamphetamine, packaging materials, hypodermic syringes, smoking pipes, a drug scale and documentation of sales.

Child Protective Services took a 15-year-old girl at the home into custody.

Crabill was booked into Siskiyou County Jail on suspicion of possessing methamphetamine for sale, possessing drug paraphernalia, transporting methamphetamine, maintaining a household for the purpose of selling a controlled substance and possessing Vicodin and Oxycontin.

Crabill is held on $25,000 bail.