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March 19, 2025
District Attorney Daniella M. Shorter-Levy announced the conviction of Ammie Cline on one (1) count of Possession of a Controlled Substance (Methamphetamine).
Ammie Cline appeared before the Honorable Judge Tomika H. Irving in the Copiah County Circuit Court and pleaded guilty to the aforementioned charge. Judge Irving withheld acceptance of the plea of guilty and placed Cline in the District Attorney’s Pretrial Intervention Program for a period of three (3) years. If she fails to complete the Pretrial Intervention Program, Banks faces up to eight (8) years of incarceration in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections and a fine in the amount of $50,000.00.
As a condition of the program, Banks was ordered to pay $3,600.00 to the District Attorney’s Office for administrative fees, a $60.00 assessment to the Mississippi Crime Lab, and court costs in the amount of $454.50.
Should this case have proceeded to trial, the prosecution would have shown that on February 23, 2023, the Crystal Springs Police Department responded to an assisted living facility in Copiah County, Mississippi in reference to a pouch containing an unknown substance being left in a patient's room.
Upon review of the surveillance tape, Ms. Cline was seen entering the facility and checking in at the nurse’s station to visit a patient. A short time later, Cline returned to the nurse’s station, asking for the pouch, which was not located. Facility staff found the pouch containing the unknown substance and a pipe in the room of the patient Cline had visited. The substance was submitted to the Mississippi Crime Laboratory and tested positive for 0.34 grams of Methamphetamine.
