Who is Jamie May Smith? Wiki, Biography, Age, Family, Incident Detail

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Last Saturday, authorities in Tennessee detained a 44-year-old woman on suspicion of packing a 30-year-old man's remains into a barrel and abandoning them at a motel. She later told police that she "just wanted the body out of her room." According to court documents analysed by Law&Crime, Jamie May Smith, who also goes by the name Jamie Holland, was arrested on Saturday and charged with one crime of abuse of a body and one count of possession of methamphetamine.

The Chattanooga Times Free Press reported that on Saturday, June 3, officers from the Chattanooga Police Department responded to a tip that a dead body was found in a room on the second story of a Motel 6 in the 7700 block of Lee Highway. First responders were reportedly told to go to two adjoining rooms on the second level as soon as they arrived at the site. Officers reportedly discovered a dead man's body in one of the rooms, room 216, which had been wrapped in a blanket and stuffed into a metal barrel.

Jamie May Smith Age

Jamie May Smith is 22 years old.

Jamie May Smith Incident Detail

Jose Heredia Lopez was soon recognised as the deceased. Officers allegedly discovered 1.5 grammes of methamphetamine in the second room. According to reports, the records at the hotel showed Lopez had rented one of the two rooms and Smith had rented the other. Before the cops arrived, a woman with long blonde braids was seen exiting room 216, according to footage from the motel's security camera. The woman was reportedly recognised as Smith by the motel manager.

Later on Saturday, as an officer returned to the motel to get the video footage, Smith entered the room as he was conversing with a front desk staff, according to Chattanooga ABC/Fox station WTVC. Police said they gave Smith a Miranda rights reading before questioning her about the death discovered in room 216. According to reports, she admitted to knowing Lopez and saying the two of them "always" used meth in their rooms together.

According to a probable cause affidavit that WTVC was able to obtain, Holland told police that she walked into her room approximately four days ago and discovered Lopez lying on the bed and "appeared to be breathing." After that, Smith left the room, but when she returned, she reported that Lopez was "unresponsive.""[Smith] claimed that after she panicked, she ran to the nearby baseball fields and grabbed a barrel.

She claimed she placed the barrel on its side after bringing it back up to her room. She put Mr. Lopez into the barrel after setting him down on the ground, according to the affidavit. Smith claimed that after that, she covered the barrel with a blanket. She claimed she didn't want to call the police, she just wanted the body out of her room, and she didn't want to go to jail.On a $10,000 bond, Smith is now being held at the Hamilton County Jail. According to documents, she is due to appear before Judge Christie Sell in County General Sessions Court on June 15.