Woman learns the hard way not to hide her substances in a ‘Bag of Drugs’

Lauren Riley was busted for her ‘Bag of Drugs’ during a traffic stop in Florida (Pictures: Pinellas County Sheriffs Office/Google)

A woman has been busted after cops spotted her explicitly labeled ‘Bag of Drugs’ and allegedly found exactly that inside.

Lauren Riley, 41, was a passenger in a vehicle pulled over by a police officer who saw she was not wearing a seatbelt on Saturday.

‘While stopped at a red light, I observed the (defendant) moving (multiple) items around in the passenger floorboard,’ wrote the cop who conducted the traffic stop in a arrest affidavit obtained by The Smoking Gun.

The cop approached Riley on the passenger side of the vehicle stopped around 54th Avenue North and Haines Road in St Petersburg, Florida. The officer noticed a small and used piece of burnt tin foil on the floorboard and decided to investigate further.

Lauren Riley has been released from Pinellas County Jail in Florida (Picture: Google)

Riley was ‘under the influence of alcohol’, the driver told the cop.

When Riley got out of the vehicle, the cop saw a plastic straw jutting out from the floorboard, and executed a probably cause search.

The cop examined a white bag labeled ‘Bag of Drugs’ inside Riley’s purse.

It contained a variety of paraphernalia including plastic baggies with white residue, a metal spoon, glass pies with residue, a needle and two straws.

Lauren Riley was arrested and charged with several drug possession charges and possession of drug paraphernalia (Picture: Pinellas County Sheriffs Office)

Additionally inside the ‘drug’ bag was a green bag with 3.25 grams of cocaine, 1.74 grams of crack cocaine, 1 gram of crystal meth, 1.5 pills of hydromorphone, 2 pills of amphetamine/dextroamphetamine and 4.5 pills of alprazolam, according to the affidavit.

Riley was arrested on numerous felony charges and a misdemeanor paraphernalia count, according to the Pinellas County Sheriffs Office.

She was held at Pinellas County Jail but has been released, according to online jail records seen by FOX 35 Orlando.

Meanwhile, the driver was arrested for having an open container, said the Florida Highway Patrol.

Riley’s ‘Bag of Drugs’ is being kept in a police evidence locker.

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