A former Vidor teacher was arrested off Interstate 10 in Orange Tuesday afternoon. Orange police report they found about an ounce of methamphetamine in the car she was driving.
It was the second methamphetamine arrest for 35-year-old Lauren Leigh Courmier in less than four months.
She was out of jail on bond from her November arrest when she was stopped for a traffic violation Tuesday. Law officers in November reported she had 9.6 ounces of the drug.
Wednesday morning, 128th State District Judge Courtney Arkeen set a $100,000 bond on the recent arrest and raised the bond on the first arrest to $300,000, for a total of $400,000.
Orange County Sheriff’s Spokesman Chad Hogan said Judge Arkeen first set the bond in November at $300,000, but lowered it to $50,000 to allow Courmier to post bond. Courmier resigned her teaching job after the November arrest.
According to the Orange Police Department, narcotics officers from the police department and the sheriff’s office Tuesday stopped a black Dodge Charger for a traffic violation that happened on Interstate 10 westbound. The stop was about 5 p.m. in the 3500 block of Lutcher Drive, the interstate access road, between Cow Bayou and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.
Officers on November 16 stopped Courmier driving a black Dodge Charger on Interstate 10 in Vidor. Courmier lives in Vinton, Louisiana, and the Sulphur, Louisiana, police department helped local officers with that investigation.
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