An Alabama mother was arrested after police investigating a tip about a significant number amount of drugs found nearly a half a million dollars worth of narcotics and a toddler wearing a backpack carrying two kilos of cocaine.
Tierra Tocorra Hill, 35, has been charged with trafficking cocaine, second-degree possession of marijuana, tampering with physical evidence, and four counts of chemical endangerment of a child, according to WKRG.
The Mobile County Sheriff’s Office said it received a tip from “a reliable confidential source” that Hill had a significant amount of a drugs at a specific location, so they set up surveillance and initiated a traffic stop when she left the house. They found 1.5 kilograms of cocaine, a small amount of marijuana, and a handgun in the vehicle.
Deputies accompanied by Alabama Law Enforcement Agency agents executed a search warrant at Hill’s home, where they found she’d left four children — ages 3, 8, 10, and 15 — alone in the home with even more drugs. Additionally, the 3-year-old child was wearing a small blue backpack that contained two bricks (kilograms) of cocaine. Another backpack, not being worn by a child, contained another kilogram of cocaine and two handguns, all easily accessible to the children.
No other adults were at home.
Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch told WKRG that the case was more than just “poor parenting.”
“Say making a poor decision, I think that’s giving too much credit,” he said. “I think she made a deliberate decision.”
“I think she made a deliberate decision to ride around with substantial amounts of drugs and a firearm in her car and leave her children home unintended with even more cocaine and more drugs, so that’s a deliberate action, not a poor decision,” he added.
Regarding the toddler with cocaine in the backpack, Burch said, “It’s safe to say that the 3-year-old probably did not put the drugs in the backpack.”
A kilo of cocaine weighs about 2.2. pounds each, he said. The street value of the drugs found at Hill’s home was about $450,000.
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[Featured image: The toddler’s blue backpack and drugs, Tierra Tocorra Hill, the two guns found in the second backpack/Mobile County Sheriff’s Office]
