A 5-year-old girl in Gwinnett County reportedly carried 10 baggies of marijuana onto a school bus, leading to the arrest of her mother on drug charges.
The bus driver told police that the child smelled "funny" when she boarded the bus bound for La Petite Academy Monday. When he told the child about her odor, she opened her book bag and pulled out a sack containing 10 baggies of marijuana, according to the Gwinnett County Police Department. Police said the marijuana was packaged for sale.
The girl told the driver that her mother put the sack in her book bag. Narcotics investigators responded to the scene and tallied 19 grams of marijuana.
Police said they contacted the girl's mother, Taneisha Lewis, 23, and searched her vehicle and the Norcross residence where she told them she lived. They found nothing illegal that day, and she was not charged.
The next day, investigators discovered that Lewis had given police a different address, in Duluth, during a recent traffic stop. They searched that residence Wednesday, and found illegal drugs, said Cpl. Jake Smith of the Gwinnett police.
The apartment in the 2100 block of Preston Park Drive contained two grams of crack cocaine and over six dozen pills of the muscle relaxant and anti-anxiety drug Clonazapam, which is illegal without a prescription, Smith said. Police also found clothing, medicine and mail belonging to Lewis and her daughter.
No one living in the apartment had a prescription for Clonazapam. The drug was found in Lewis' bedroom, police said, so she was charged with possession of a schedule IV substance. Police also charged her with possession with intent to distribute marijuana and obstruction of a law enforcement officer.
The crack was in Earnest Boyd's room, police said, so they charged him with possession of cocaine. Boyd is Lewis’ 26-year-old brother.
Lewis and Boyd were taken to the Gwinnett County Detention Center and subsequently released on bond.
The Division of Family and Children Services was notified, and it placed Lewis' child with family.
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