An Alabama mother was arrested after a sheriff found two kilograms of cocaine stuffed inside her 3-year-old son’s blue Nike backpack.
Mobile County sheriff’s deputies arrested Tierra Tocora Hill, 35, after they discovered $450,000 worth of drugs and multiple firearms during a search of her car and home. According to WKRG.
Detectives from the Narcotics Enforcement Team conducted surveillance at the home after receiving information that a mother had a large amount of drugs in the house she shared with her four children, ages 3, 8, 10, and 15. started.
They waited until Hill left in her car and then stopped her in traffic. They searched the vehicle and allegedly found 1.5 kilograms of cocaine, a handgun and a small amount of marijuana, according to a local CBS affiliate.
But that discovery only scratched the surface.
Narcotics investigators were issued a search warrant for Hill’s home, which was quickly executed.
Inside the house, they encountered a toddler wearing a blue backpack. They searched the bag and allegedly found two kilograms of cocaine inside.
“It’s safe to say that the 3-year-old likely did not have drugs in his backpack,” Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch told local news outlets. “A kilogram is 2.2 pounds and is commonly referred to as a brick. That means a 3-year-old’s backpack has two bricks in it.”
Officers also found an additional 1 kilogram and two handguns in another backpack inside the home.
Four children were inside the home at the time, and no adults were present. Drugs and guns were easily available to the children, the sheriff’s office noted.
“I think it’s an overstatement to say she made a bad decision, for example. I think she made a deliberate decision,” Birch said.
“I think she made a deliberate decision to drive around with a lot of drugs and firearms in her car and leave her children at home unintentionally with even more cocaine and drugs. So… It was a deliberate action and not a bad decision,” the sheriff said. Added.
Hill was charged with trafficking in cocaine, second-degree possession of marijuana, tampering with physical evidence, and four counts of chemical endangerment of a child.
