On Monday morning, a mother and father were detained in Smith County, Texas, on suspicion of allegedly concealing fentanyl pills inside their mother’s baby.
Dredarian Ester, 27, and Jada Speight, 22, are both facing charges of rejection or destruction of a , baby causing immediate danger, production or shipping of a controlled substance between four and 200 grams, and possession of marijuana between four ounces and five pounds, CBS19 reported.
A assistant pulled over the couple for a transportation halt near a 7- Eleven with their six- month- aged in the backseat, according to the Smith County Sheriff’s Office. According to the report, the lieutenant reportedly conducted a possible cause research of the car during the traffic stop.
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The lieutenant removed the baby’s diaper and discovered an orange plastic container filled with blue pills, which the assistant believed to be pressed fentanyl pills, according to the report, citing the sheriff’s office.
According to reports, Ester allegedly told law enforcement that he had put the capsules in the baby of the child. According to the report, the deputy also reportedly found marijuana inside the car.
Smith County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Sgt. The lieutenant is 99 percent certain the pills contain fentanyl, but they will be sent to a lab for testing, according to Larry Christian of KLTV. He claimed that a fatal accident could have been prevented by concealing fentanyl in the boy’s baby.
Christian remarked,” I ca n’t stress enough how reckless and dangerous it is to do something like that.”
Ester and Speight were booked into Smith County Jail on$ 105, 000 bond each. According to Christian, the baby was taken into Child Protective Services ( CPS).
