A Washington mother was arrested on drug trafficking charges after she passed out with her toddler in the back seat

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A 27-year-old Pasco mother is accused of passing out on drugs in a parked car while her toddler sat in the back seat.

A passerby called 911 after seeing 27-year-old Judge R. Norwood unconscious in a Ford Focus at the U-Haul warehouse on Court Street Monday evening, Pasco police said in a Facebook post.

When officers arrived around 8 p.m., they were able to wake her up and began talking to her. They said she kept reaching into her purse.

She appeared disoriented, her eyes were bloodshot and watery and she couldn’t find her ID, they said. According to court documents, police noticed a glass pipe in the door and a glass jar containing a white “crystallized substance” in her purse.

She allegedly told an officer that the glass contained methamphetamine and that she had smoked some earlier in the day.

Officers obtained a search warrant for her car and found 300 fentanyl pills in several pockets in a backpack on the passenger seat, according to court documents.

Police said they found a handgun and what appeared to be crack cocaine in Norwood’s purse.

They also seized standards, naloxone strips, baggies and what appeared to be meth in the same backpack. Court documents said. The police also found several cell phones.

Investigators said they seized sticky notes in the trunk that appeared to have the names and amounts of drugs owed, the documents said.

Her daughter was examined by Pasco Fire Department paramedics and was uninjured, but police have not said where the girl was taken after her mother was arrested.

“We would like to thank the concerned citizen who reported what they saw, which ultimately led to our ability to remove the child from a potentially dangerous situation and remove hundreds of dangerous fentanyl pills from the streets,” Pasco police said the Facebook page.

Norwood is charged with delivery of a controlled sentence and is being held in the Franklin County Jail in lieu of $50,000 bail.

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