A routine traffic stop in New York state took a strange turn when a toddler handed a police officer a bag of drugs. As the officers approached the 2000 Saturn on Route 32 just south of Albany, they could smell burning marijuana coming from the vehicle.
Inside the car, the officers found an "ashtray containing the butt ends of several marijuana cigarettes." One of the officers asked the driver, identified as Scott Hill, to step out of the vehicle while his partner went to check on the three-year-old child sitting in the back seat.
The child, who was not properly secured in a car seat, reached under the front seat and pulled out a bag and handed it to the officer. The pouch "contained a bag of marijuana and a metal grinding device and smoking pipe, both containing the drug."
Hill, along with his passenger Megan Karl, were both taken into custody and charged with endangering the welfare of a child. Hill told the officers the drugs belonged to him and he was charged with possession of marijuana. The child was taken and placed into the care of relatives.
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