Police in Durham got a surprise when they found an infant in the backseat of a vehicle while arresting two people who were observed conducting drug transactions.
It happened in an Oshawa neighbourhood on Wednesday.
Durham police say officers were in the Pentland Street and Nonquon Road area at around 1 p.m. when they spotted a man and a woman conducting drug transactions from a parked vehicle.
Officers approached the vehicle and arrested the man and woman and that's when they found the child, under the age of one, in the backseat of the vehicle.
The baby was handed over to a family member and the Children’s Aid Society was notified.
A search of the vehicle turned up a quantity of fentanyl with a street value of $1,786 as well as an unspecified quantity of cash.
A subsequent search warrant executed at a residence near Harmony Road and Beatric Street turned up drug paraphernalia.
The suspects, a 34-year old Oshawa man and a 27-year-old Oshawa woman, are both charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking.
Police are not releasing their names in order to protect the identity of the baby.