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Cops find drugs, baby, during traffic stop
By Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN
City vice squad officers Mike Quinn and Jimmy Hughes Jr. found suspected heroin, suspected crack cocaine and a 4-month-old baby during a traffic stop early Tuesday evening.
Booked into the Mahoning County jail on charges of possession of crack cocaine and child endangering was Kayla Meenachan, 22, of Petersburg. Dustin Dellick, 30, of Crestline Place, was booked into the jail on charges of possession of heroin and possession of crack cocaine.
Booked into the jail on charges of possession of heroin, possession of drugs and possession of marijuana was Mariah Jones, 18, of Struthers.
Quinn and Hughes pulled over a car Meenachan was driving on the North Side after they spotted it on Wirt Street cut off another car and drive off at a high rate of speed.
The officers managed to get the car pulled over on the Madison Avenue Expressway just before Interstate 680.
As the car pulled over, they noticed a man, later identified as Dellick, leaning over in the back seat as if he were trying to hide something.
The baby, Meenachan’s child, was in the back seat in a car seat, reports said.
The officers took Dellick out of the car and searched it because of his actions before the car was pulled over.
They found nothing on him, but he told police there were drugs in a diaper bag and they belonged to Meenachan, reports said.
The officers looked in the bag and found suspected crack cocaine, and they also found suspected heroin where Dellick was sitting, reports said.
Meenachan admitted to police she had drugs on her and took a dose of suspected crack cocaine out of her bra, reports said.
Jones also said she had drugs in her possession. She took a bag of suspected marijuana, pills and a dose of suspected heroin out of her bra.
The baby was placed with a relative with the help of the Mahoning County Children Services.