A 35-year-old Alabama woman was arrested after local sheriff’s deputies found “large amounts of cocaine” during a search warrant, including thousands of dollars worth of the illicit narcotic in the backpack of her 3-year-old child.
The Mobile County Sheriff’s Office received information from a source about the copious amounts of cocaine at a home, the department said in a news release. Narcotics investigators then set up surveillance and say they saw the woman leaving, according to the sheriff’s office.
The investigators followed the woman in a marked vehicle and subsequently conducted a traffic stop. During the stop, they found 1.5 kilograms of cocaine, a small amount of marijuana and a handgun in the woman’s vehicle, the department said.
The discovery of the drugs in the woman’s vehicle prompted the sheriff’s office to conduct a search warrant at the home investigators saw her leaving earlier, the department said.
