Driver arrested for drug driving with three-month-old baby in vehicle – Traffic and Highway Patrol

A woman has been charged for alleged drug-driving and drug possession, while a three-month-old baby was in the vehicle.

About 2am today (Friday 4 March 2016), Traffic and Highway Patrol officers stopped a vehicle on Kooringal Road in Wagga Wagga for random breath and drug tests.

The 24-year-old female driver passed the alcohol breath test. She was then tested for drugs and returned a positive result for methamphetamine.

Officers searched the vehicle and located 5.27 grams of a crystal-like substance believed to amphetamines.

They also saw the three-month-old child in the backseat of the car.

Relatives of the child attended the police station and the child was handed over into their care.

The woman was arrested and taken to Wagga Wagga Police station, where a second drug test returned a positive result for methamphetamines.

She was charged with possess prohibited drug, deemed supply prohibited drug and prohibited from driving for 24 hours.

Bail conditions are still being determined.

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