Police in Georgia have arrested a woman following an undercover sting for selling meth — the same woman who had meth placed underneath her car in a criminal conspiracy in 2012 after she claimed a Murray County magistrate judge had propositioned her.

Dalton Police spokesman Bruce Frazier said Angela Garmley, 40, of 4129 Brown Bridge Road S.E., was arrested Tuesday at a local Wal-Mart on a warrant arising from an undercover drug investigation in July, when Garmley allegedly sold meth to an informant at another Wal-Mart.

The investigation was a joint effort between Dalton Police and the Murray County Sheriff’s Office, Frazier said.

In July 2012, Garmley accused former Murray County magistrate judge Bryant Cochran of asking for sexual favors from her in return for making a favorable ruling on a case.

The following month, she was arrested on meth charges but told deputies she was set up. A metal tin filled with meth was found underneath her car during a traffic stop by a deputy of the Murray County Sheriff’s Office. A federal investigation revealed the deputy, a sheriff’s office captain who is Cochran’s cousin and a tenant of Cochran, conspired to set Garmley up in that instance.

Garmley’s attorney, McCracken Poston, said he was surprised to hear she has been arrested again on meth charges. He added that during the last two years, he has received several reports that law enforcement personnel are targeting Garmley.

“Since that period, we have understood from a number of sources that various agencies in the Conasauga Judicial Circuit have been offering leniency to suspects if they would ‘set up’ (Garmley) with a drug sale,” he said. “It appears from this arrest that someone trying to better their own circumstances has attempted to do this.”

Poston said although he has yet to see the evidence, this appears to be an attempt to help Cochran, who is under federal indictment, and “make everyone feel that it would be fine to not hold him accountable.”

“Either way it turns out, it is a sad day for justice in the Conasauga Judicial Circuit,” Poston said.

Information for this story was reported by the Dalton (Ga.) Daily Citizen.