By NEAL WAGNER / Managing Editor

COLUMBIANA – A felony chemical endangerment charge against a 35-year-old Alabaster woman has been dismissed by a Shelby County Circuit Court judge, according to court records.

Circuit Court Judge Dan Reeves dismissed without prejudice a chemical endangerment charge against Alabaster resident Amanda June Reed in early November 2015.

Because the case was dismissed without prejudice, Reed could one day face the charge again if she is indicted by a Shelby County grand jury.

The Alabaster Police Department arrested Reed on April 30, 2015, and charged her with one felony count of chemical endangerment of a child. According to her arrest warrant, Reed was charged with giving birth at Shelby Baptist Medical Center to a child who tested positive for multiple controlled substances on Feb. 13, 2015.

Reed was released from the Shelby County Jail the same day she was arrested after posting a $15,000 bond.

One of the conditions of her bond was to have no contact with the child, but the condition was modified through an agreement between Reed’s attorney and the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office. The Shelby County Department of Human resources recommended Reed be permitted to have contact with the child, according to court documents.

In court documents seeking to allow Reed to have visitation with her child, her attorney, Richard Shuleva, claimed the charges “resulted from the results of drug testing done immediately prior to the birth of her child.”

Shuleva claimed the drug test results leading to Reed’s arrest were “conflicting.”

According to court documents, the charge was dropped as the result of an agreement between Reed and prosecutors.