Woman learns the hard way not to hide her items in a ‘bag of drugs’

A woman has been busted after cops spotted her explicitly labeled ‘bag of drugs’.

Lauren Riley, 41, was a passenger in a vehicle pulled over by a police officer who saw she was not wearing a seatbelt on Saturday.

‘While stopped at a red light, I observed the (defendant) moving (multiple) items around in the passenger floorboard,’ wrote an officer who conducted the traffic stop in a report obtained by The Smoking Gun.

The cop who approached Riley on the passenger side of her vehicle saw a small and used piece of burnt tin foil on the floorboard.

Riley was ‘under the influence of alcohol’, the driver told the cop.

When Riley got out of the vehicle, the cop saw a plastic straw jutting out form the floorboard, and executed a probably cause search.

The cop examined a white bag labeled ‘bag of drugs’ inside Riley’s purse.

It contained a variety of paraphernalia including plastic baggies with white residue, a metal spoon, glass pies with residue, a needle and two straws.

Additionally inside the ‘drug’ bag was a green bag with 3.25 grams of cocaine, 1.74 grams of crack cocaine, 1 gram of crystal meth, 1.5 pills of hydromorphone, 2 pills of amphetamine/dextroamphetmine and 4.5 pills of alprazolam, according to the report.

Riley was arrested on numerous felony charges and a misdemeanor paraphernalia count, according to the Pinellas County Sheriffs Office.

She was placed behind bars in Florida.

Riley’s ‘bag of drugs’ is being kept in a police evidence locker.

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