Woman charged for second time with having drugs in Trumbull County jail

Staff report

WARREN

Brittany N. Gromley, 24, of Federal Street in Warren has been charged a second time for purportedly possessing drugs in the Trumbull County jail.

Gromley was arrested at 1:29 a.m. Monday in a car at the corner of Comstock Avenue Northwest and Arlington Street. She had drug-injection syringes in her hand, police said.

She pleaded not guilty Monday morning in Warren Municipal Court to misdemeanor charges of possessing drug-abuse instruments and possession of drug paraphernalia and is being held in the county jail without eligibility to make bond.

However, the last time she was in the jail, she was charged Feb. 24 with felony illegal conveyance of drugs of abuse onto the grounds of a detention facility for purportedly having cocaine and illegal pills in her possession.

She also was arraigned on that charge Monday. A not-guilty plea was entered for her.

She also was charged with illegal conveyance in February for a December 2014 incident at the county jail in which she was found to have a syringe with a missing needle, possible heroin and pills in her possession.

That charge, a felony, was bound over to a county grand jury March 3, and she was released from the jail on bond.

Maj. Thomas Stewart of the sheriff’s office, who investigated both conveyance charges, could not be reached Monday to discuss the cases.