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A 21-year-old Lorena woman was recently arrested

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A 21-year-old Lorena woman was recently arrested by a Coryell County Sheriff's deputy on outstanding warrants from McLennan County related to charges of possession of a dangerous drug and possession of child pornography.

Olivia Ariel Whitt was arrested on Nov. 19.

"She was found in the company of a runaway in Gatesville, and the child was missing from Gatesville," said Coryell County Sheriff Scott Williams. He added that it was a deputy in the criminal investigation department that made the arrest.

According to information obtained from the sheriff's office, Lt. Randall Hill and Sgt. Ronald Dayton were dispatched to Strawsmill Road near the low water crossing in response to a report of a suspicious vehicle in which the occupants appeared to either be asleep or passed out.

Hill reportedly knocked on the driver's side window of the vehicle and asked the occupants if they were OK. He also asked the driver and a young male passenger in the vehicle for identification.

It was then determined that the driver, Whitt, was wanted on criminal warrants out of McLennan County. The male passenger, a minor, had been entered into a missing juvenile database by the Gatesville Police Department.

The young man's parents were contacted, and they told the deputy that they would come to the location to pick him up.

According to the sheriff's office report, a bag containing four white pills were obtained. It was later determined that these pills were quetiapine fumarate, also known as Seroquel, and that Whitt did not have the necessary prescription required for the pills.

Additionally, the report stated, a small glass meth pipe was located in Whitt's property.

According to a story appearing in the Waco Tribune-Herald, Whitt was arrested in June 2021 after a 16-year-old boy said he was involved in a sexual relationship with her. At that time, she was charged with a second-degree felony charge of sexual assault of a child.

Whitt was released from the McLennan County Jail in June after posting bail on a $10,000 bond on that charge.