Pet raccoon with meth pipe in its mouth found in car during Ohio traffic stop

Meth pipe-wielding raccoon recovered successful Ohio car

Meth pipe-wielding raccoon recovered successful Ohio car 00:48

An serviceman successful cardinal Ohio encountered a favored racoon portion conducting a postulation halt earlier this week. The animal, named "Chewy," had a solid methamphetamine tube successful its rima and was sitting successful the driver's spot of a car that the serviceman had pulled over, constabulary said. 

The find led Springfield Township Police Officer Austin Branham, who conducted the postulation stop, to hunt the conveyance much thoroughly. He and different officers recovered methamphetamine, ace cocaine and 3 utilized methamphetamine pipes elsewhere successful the car, according to the Springfield Township Police Department.

The conveyance was pulled implicit due to the fact that its registered proprietor had an progressive warrant and a suspended driver's license, the section said. Law enforcement arrested and charged the proprietor of the car, 55-year-old Victoria Vidal, with cause possession and 3 counts of cause paraphernalia and cited her for driving nether suspension, the constabulary section said. Vidal whitethorn look much charges for ace cocaine possession, depending connected the result of laboratory results inactive to travel from the authorities Bureau of Criminal Investigation.

The raccoon was not harmed, constabulary said, and officers confirmed Vidal has the documents needed to legally ain the animal. (In Ohio, radical are allowed to person favored raccoons, but the process to support them domestically is highly regulated and definite permits are required.)

Springfield constabulary released assemblage camera video of the postulation stop, which shows Chewy emerging from the car.

"While our officers are trained to expect the unexpected, uncovering a raccoon holding a meth tube is simply a first!" the section said.

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