Summons, no bail for pregnant woman accused of stashing 89 heroin bags in vagina - Cliffviewpilot.com
Glen Rock police said officers stopped 27-year-old Dakota Dunning’s 2003 Sabb with expired New York license plates on Route 208 near Lincoln Avenue on Friday. After discovering warrants for Dunning and passenger Marina McCarthy — as well as noticing “marks and behavior consistent with drug use” — the officers got his consent to search the car, Detective Sgt. A Bergen County Sheriff’s K-9 Unit responded and indicated the presence of drugs even though none were found in the vehicle itself, Reamy said. After taking the Gouldsboro, PA couple to headquarters, “officers reviewed in-car surveillance camera data and observed McCarthy moving in a way to make them believe she was concealing contraband in or near her genitalia,” the sergeant said. McCarthy, 22, who police said is six months pregnant, “was immediately questioned about those movements, as the introduction of narcotics into any body cavity could be fatal to [her]as well as [to] her unborn child,” he said. She admitted stashing the smack, “and in the presence of a female police officer in a private holding room…extracted a total of 89 bags” of heroin, Reamy said. McCarthy posted cash for a $1,000 Sparta warrant and was released on a court summonse charging her with heroin possession. “I have a 1996 Dodge Ram 2500 slt Laramie pickup truck. Source: cliffviewpilot.com
