The North Carolina mom who disappeared in 2001 and was found safe and sound earlier this month was briefly arrested, according to Rockingham County authorities, who also released a mugshot.
The mugshot is the first current photo of Michele Hundley Smith, now 62, a mother-of-3 that vanished 24 years ago during a Christmas shopping trip. She was recently located elsewhere in the state and asked police to keep her current whereabouts a secret from her family, which has been looking for her for decades.
She was taken into custody after investigators realized she had an active arrest warrant for failing to appear in court over a drunk driving charge just a month before she went missing – November 2001. They arrested her near the South Carolina border…