A North Carolina couple has been accused of injecting heroin while a baby was still in the vehicle.
Salisbury Police officer O.M. Szentpaly was at a gas station when she noticed a vehicle in a car wash. She spotted a couple passed out in a hot car.
“When she pulled in she noticed that both the driver and passenger’s heads were looking down,” said Capt. Melonie Thompson, reported WBTV. “When she came back out and looked at the car again, she noticed that the driver’s head she could not see and the passenger was still looking down, so she decided to investigate further.”
The officer filled the car with gas and walked over to check the couple inside the car. They appeared to be “looking down,” a police report read.
The couple was later identified as Jessie Lee Hastings, 27, and her husband, David Wayne Hastings, 31, who are both from Woodleaf, North Carolina. The report said David was passed out with a syringe in his hand. Jessie was also passed out.
Szentpaly, however, noticed a child in the car seat in the back “wet with sweat.” The couple’s car air conditioning was not working and the windows were rolled down.
