WEBSTER, Fla. – A woman in Florida arrested multiple times on drug charges during traffic stops has earned a reputation for trying to stash evidence.
Constance Suzanne Louramore was the passenger in a pickup truck, and
the license plate showed its registered owner’s “license was not valid due to having two counts of FR [financial responsibility] suspension,” the arrest report said.
UPDATE: Louramore took a plea deal on Feb. 25. She pleaded no contest to the lesser paraphernalia charge and the contraband charge was dropped. Then, she was sentenced to time served and released from jail.
One deputy conducted a traffic stop and a second deputy, with a K9, showed up “to conduct a free air sniff of the vehicle for the odor of narcotics,” which ended when the K9 reportedly “alerted to the odor of narcotics.”
Both driver and passenger were told to get out of the vehicle, and while they were doing so, “[The K9 deputy] observed the defendant attempting to conceal an unknown item,” the arrest report said. “[The K9 deputy] then escorted the defendant out of the vehicle and detained her by placing her in handcuffs.
“I then conducted a search of the vehicle,” the deputy wrote, and reported finding a purple glass tube and a clear glass bowl “on the front passenger-side seat where the defendant was sitting.” Also, a white chalky residue in the clear glass bowl, and the suspected drug paraphernalia “both tested positive for cocaine,” the arrest report said.
“The defendant stated that she used the purple glass tube to consume cocaine,” the deputy reported, and Louramore was arrested.
“I searched the defendant,” the deputy continued, “and did not find anything in her pockets or on her person. I explained to the defendant that it was an additional charge to bring contraband into a county facility or jail.
“The defendant stated she didn’t have anything else on her, and she was placed in the back seat of my patrol vehicle and transported to the Sumter County Detention Center.”
But on the way, the deputy wrote, “The defendant advised she had more drug paraphernalia on her, but stated she was not going to tell me where.
“Upon entering the jail, the defendant advised to [a corporal] that she had paraphernalia in her vagina. [The corporal] escorted the defendant into the jail, passing the warning on the door.
“[The corporal] was able to remove the paraphernalia out of the defendant’s vagina and gave it to me for evidence. I conducted a presumptive field test on the suspected drug paraphernalia that was found in the defendant’s vagina, which tested positive for cocaine.”
That was on the night of June 26, 2024.
A possession of drug paraphernalia charge is just a misdemeanor, but Louramore also faced a felony charge of smuggling contraband into a county detention facility.
Then, things got worse for her.
Louramore pleaded not guilty and her trial was supposed to take place last month, but she didn’t show up on Jan. 8, so the judge forfeited her $3,000 bond and issued an arrest warrant.
Constance Suzanne Louramore's Capias returned executed, Jan. 9, 2025 by Lenny Cohen on Scribd
She was arrested the next morning and is now being held without bond.
Louramore’s friend – or maybe former friend for a very good reason – almost pulled a similar stunt, a few years back, and then ratted her out.
She was again the passenger, but in her own pickup truck, which had an expired license plate, shortly before midnight on May 2, 2019.
A deputy pulled them over and while Louramore was searching for her license, “[The driver] hesitantly admitted to having paraphernalia within her crotch area. The co-defendant then pulled out a glass crack pipe from within her crotch area, under her pants,” the arrest report said.
“I asked the co-defendant if any other narcotics or paraphernalia was within the vehicle,” the deputy wrote. “The co-defendant informed me the defendant also had a crack pipe, and possibly cocaine.”
Both women “were removed from the vehicle,” and the deputy searched, reportedly finding the driver’s smoked marijuana cigarettes.
Concerning Louramore, the deputy also reported finding “a metal crack pipe where the defendant was sitting, a glass crack pipe in the defendant’s pocket, and a small crack rock packed into the glass crack pipe.”
Louramore was charged with possession of cocaine and two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia. She was taken to jail without incident this time, but would be arrested again before this case was eventually closed.
In a somewhat related and unusual case five months later, Louramore was driving a jeep when someone reported it as “a suspicious vehicle.”
The arrest report said he told deputies “he believed the occupants of the vehicle were on narcotics and has been staring at him for approximately 30 minutes.”
A deputy found the jeep and noted before pulling it over, Louramore was not wearing her seat belt.
“I could clearly see the belt buckle hanging through the front windshield of the jeep,” he wrote.
The deputy pulled it over and reported seeing the passenger “actively attempting to conceal a Mike’s Harder Cranberry alcoholic beverage behind the driver’s seat of the jeep.” The passenger also gave the deputy a false name and birth date.
“As I was attempting to find [her] true identity,” the deputy continued, “[A K9 deputy] arrived on scene with his K9 partner Mace. [They] conducted an exterior open air sniff of the jeep [and] alerted to the odor of illegal narcotics.
“A probable cause search was conducted” and authorities reported finding “a plastic container containing a white rock substance [believed] to be cocaine. The container had been in a purse which was in the possession of Constance at the time of the stop. There was also a baggie of white crystal substance … believed to be methamphetamine.” And “there were also three glass pipes containing burnt cocaine residue.”
Eventually, “The suspected methamphetamine and suspected cocaine were both presumptive field-tested with a positive result for each substance,” the arrest report said.
Then, “[Louramore] admitted the cocaine, methamphetamine, and paraphernalia were hers. She advised they were for her personal use.”
She was arrested for possession of cocaine, possession of methamphetamine, and possession of drug paraphernalia, and found to have “a criminal history” of cocaine and paraphernalia convictions dating back to 1997: three in Pasco County and one in Lake County.
Louramore also got a written warning for the seat belt violation.
On April 21 2021, Louramore took a plea deal in this case and in her May 2019 case. One paraphernalia charge from her earlier case was dropped, and Louramore was sentenced to 6 months and 20 days in jail, with credit for 5 months and 24 days served.
Years earlier, in nearby Lake County in December 2009, she was pulled over and arrested while driving her daughter.
The trouble started when a police officer noticed Louramore’s black Jeep had a license plate that belonged on a white Chevy van.
“As I was stopping the vehicle,” the officer wrote, “I noticed that the driver was moving things around inside the vehicle, and she appeared to be tucking something inside her waistband. Upon contact with the driver, she appeared to be very nervous and was shaking. I asked for her driver’s license, registration, and insurance.
“The driver, later identified as Constance Louramore, stated she did not have her license on her, but that her name was [something else] with a birthdate of 06-01-1958. I asked her for her Social Security number and she stated she did not know it.
“As I was speaking with her, I observed a white powdery substance on her pants and inside the vehicle … consistent with crack cocaine.”
Of course, the officer got a picture of the person Louramore said she was, and it “did not match the person that I was talking to,” the officer noted.
That’s when the officer decided to speak to the passenger.
“She stated the driver’s name was Constance Louramore, and it was her mother, and she does not know why she gave me a false name,” the cop wrote. “I asked her about the powdery substance and she stated it was cocaine, and when I activated my emergency lights, her mom asked her to hide it.
“The passenger stated they had just come from the store and her mom had bought steel wool and a glass pipe to consume the cocaine with. I then placed Ms. Louramore under arrest for providing false information to me.
“Upon searching the vehicle, a small bag containing a cream-colored rocky substance was located behind the driver’s seat. There was also white powdery substance on the defendant’s clothes in her waistband, which tested positive for cocaine.”
Later, “She admitted to possession of cocaine,” the officer wrote, “and that it was hers, and that she gave me the false name to me [sic] because of a warrant.
“She stated she just wants help to get off drugs and needs help. She was subsequently transported to Lake County Jail,” where she apparently didn’t get the help she needed.
The arrest report did not mention a warrant, or Louramore’s daughter’s age, for that matter.
Order of Drug Offender Probation, April 28, 2010 by Lenny Cohen on Scribd
She took a plea deal the following April and was sentenced to three years of drug offender probation.
Pasco County Sheriff’s Office records mention three arrests but no cases with Louramore’s name came up in court records.
Discharge of Constance Suzanne Louramore's bond, Jan. 23, 2025 by Lenny Cohen on Scribd
Interestingly, this latest time, Louramore was arrested for failure to appear “prior to the forfeiture notice being sent” so her earlier bond was returned, although Louramore, now 62, remains locked up. Her next scheduled court date is Feb. 25.
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