23-year-old Sara Alexandria Winters of Riverhills Place Drive in Taylorsville was arrested by Hickory Police shortly before noon yesterday (January 4) on felony counts of possession of a schedule II controlled substance and possession with intent to manufacture, sell, or deliver a schedule I controlled substance (heroin).

Winters was taken into custody without incident at a hotel on Lenoir-Rhyne Boulevard S.E. in Hickory. She was jailed in the Catawba Co. Detention Facility under a $25,000 secured bond. She has since been released. A first appearance in District Court was scheduled today in Newton.