MOULTRIE, Ga. — In law enforcement as in life: Some days it comes easy and some days you have to work for it.

Law enforcement has made a number of recent arrests on drug charges, ranging from one that required investigative skills to one in which a woman walked into the District Attorney’s Office apparently under the influence of drugs and with marijuana in her purse.

In the latter instance, police were dispatched at about 1 p.m. Tuesday to the office at 101 E. Central Ave., which had reported a woman in the lobby possibly under the influence of drugs.

When officers arrived, Moultrie police said, they detected the smell of marijuana on Jennifer Howell Nieves.

Nieves told the officers that she did not have any marijuana and when asked if they could search her purse, she responded, “Sure,” police said.

Inside the purse they located a small glass jar containing suspected marijuana and a turtle-shaped smoking pipe.

At that point, police said, Nieves told them, “Oh, I forgot about that stuff.”

Police charged Nieves, 44, 702 Overloook Drive, with possession of marijuana.

The other case began with a tip and led to the arrest on Jan. 20 of 28-year-old Kerry Bernard Sharpe at his 208 Eighth St. S.W. residence.

Sharpe’s arrest on a charge of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute was his third involving marijuana in a roughly two-year period, Moultrie Police Department Sgt. Freddie Williams said.

In other recent drug cases:

• Rudreekis Lequez Williams, 23, 1331 U.S. Hwy. 319 N. Lot 79, Norman Park, was charged with possession of methamphetamine and possession of marijuana.

• Kristin Nicole Tolan, 24, 315 Captain Gay Road, and Alicia Leighanna Cox, 27, 225 Indian Lake Drive, were each charged with possession of a Schedule IV substance and possession of methamphetamine. Police reportedly also charged Burton with disorderly conduct.

• Ashley Leigh Burton, 33, 226 DeMott St., was charged Saturday with possession of a Schedule II drug, drugs to be kept in original container and disorderly conduct.

• Billy Gerald Akes, 46, 1708 First Ave. S.E., was charged Jan. 20 with possession of methamphetamine.