IOWA, La. (KPLC) – A Houston woman is accused of trafficking nearly half a million dollars’ worth of drugs along I-10 while a young child was riding in her car.
On March 31, detectives with the Combined Anti-Drug Task Force pulled over 52-year-old Kim Hill on I-10 near Iowa, authorities said.
Detectives saw a 5-year-old child sitting in the front passenger seat and saw that there were no child restraint systems inside the car, according to Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Kayla Vincent.
Investigators noticed signs of in-transit criminal activity and requested to search the car, which Hill refused, Vincent said. K-9 Buck, a certified drug detection dog, was deployed and detected the odor of narcotics…