A woman admitted that she could not wait to use the drugs that she just bought, Butler police said.

Along with a loaded syringe, officers found Melanie L. Dudgeon, 27, of Butler apparently under the influence Oct. 11 in a downtown store bathroom.

“Dudgeon said she would have shot up at home,” according to a police affidavit, “but she had a long walk to get there.”

Police estimated the walk to be about a half mile.

On Tuesday, police charged her with possession of drug paraphernalia.

Officers were called about 12:30 p.m. to the Rite-Aid on South Main Street for a well-being check. Employees reported that a woman was “acting strangely” in the bathroom, court documents said.

Dudgeon came out when police got there. She “mumbled” something that the officers could not understand, police said.

A check of the stall that she had been in, documents said, turned up the uncapped syringe that was on top of the toilet paper dispenser.