Barbara Elder
WILLIAMSON CO., Ill. - A Marion woman was busted Saturday after a special agent following her pseudoephedrine purchases tracked her out of a local drugstore.
On May 21, Barbara Elder, 50, who lives on Enterprise Way in the former Heritage Apartments, was picked up by the Williamson County Sheriff’s office on a warrant for Failure To Appear on a March 14 charge of purchasing a package of pseudoephedrine cold pills.
A special agent who had been monitoring those purchases from Marion Walgreen’s followed the vehicle driven by Tina Hill, 50. Hill, of Creal Springs, was on supervised release from prison. The agent followed them to a parking lot on North Russell Street where Hill failed to signal.
Tina Hill
The agent approached the car and Elder admitted to purchasing the pills for Hill for fifty dollars. Hill consented to a search of her car and inside her purse were the pills and two Suboxone sublingual films, which she admitted she didn't have a prescription for. Suboxone is a Schedule 3 drug under the Controlled Substance Act it is used to treat opioid addiction. Hill said she had planned to give the pills to David Barger in exchange for some cash and a little bit of methamphetamine.
This is not Hill’s first rodeo; a lifelong acquaintance of Hill says he doesn't understand why she can't stay clean. Hill was taken to the Williamson County Jail and is on hold for the United States Marshall service.
Elder, however, is sitting in the Williamson County Jail on a $1,075 bond for failing to appear on a Class A Misdemeanor charge.