Barrett pleads guilty to 2024 drug possession

On Feb. 4, Gloria Barrett of Bakersfield pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled substance. She was sentenced to 7 years in the Missouri Department of Corrections, SES and five years probation. Pursuant to a plea agreement, a  charge of unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia was dismissed. An SES, or suspended execution of sentence, means Barrett was sentenced to a prison term but was placed on probation. She will not go to prison unless she violates the terms of her probation.

Barrett’s charges are in connection with a Nov. 1, 2024, drug bust conducted at a home in Bakersfield.

According to the probable cause statement, prepared by Ozark County Sheriff’s Deputy Josh Sherman, on Nov. 1, the Multi-Jurisdictional Task Force executed the search warrant. 

On scene, the following items were seized: a GPad tablet, an iPhone with purple case, an iPhone with black case, a Nokia phone with gray case, a black and blue AT&T phone, a Cricket LC phone. Also seized were these items found inside a kitchen cabinet: a black digital scale, a Christmas ornament that was manufactured as a smoking device, a tin container with drug paraphernalia, a glass smoking device and an orange smoking device. All field-tested positive for methamphetamine. In a kitchen china cabinet, officers found a black glass skull and a white glass skull with a white crystal-like substance on them. There was also a white baggie with a white crystalline substance inside that field-tested positive for meth found on a coffee table in the living room.