Two people who were pulled over in South Carolina have been arrested after police discovered 1,500 grams of cocaine inside a fake pregnancy belly.
Sheriff’s deputies in Anderson County pulled over Anthony Miller and Cemeka Mitchem on April 12 as part of a “proactive patrol” on Interstate 85, CBS News reported. Mitchem appeared pregnant, but the pair “gave conflicting information about her ‘due date,’” police said in a social media post on Sunday. This was a “red flag” to deputies, they said, and when Mitchem realized the deputies were becoming suspicious of her story, she fled from the car with drugs falling from her fake rubber stomach.
Anderson County Sheriff’s Office
Police said they collected more than 1,500 grams of cocaine during the traffic stop. Miller and Mitchem face charges of trafficking cocaine.
Earlier this year, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control released its annual report on drug overdose deaths in the Palmetto State, finding a “continued significant increase” over the past several years.
“From 2020 to 2021, the total number of drug overdose deaths in South Carolina increased by more than 430 individuals, from 1,734 deaths to 2,168: an increase of more…
