--- title: Driver Arrested After Girl Hands Marijuana Over to Police description: Driver and passenger arrested after little girl hands over bag of marijuana to police who stopped them. canonical: https://time.com/5391440/girl-marijuana-police/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-09-10T13:23:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:54:45.440Z og:title: 3-Year-Old Girl Reveals Bag of Marijuana to Police og:description: She got adults in trouble og:url: https://time.com/5391440/girl-marijuana-police/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 3-Year-Old Girl Reveals Bag of Marijuana to Police twitter:description: She got adults in trouble twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Adults in Big Trouble After 3-Year-Old Girl Hands Bag of Marijuana Over to Police by [Ashley Hoffman](/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Sep 10, 2018 1:23 PM CUT by [Ashley Hoffman](/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Sep 10, 2018 1:23 PM CUT A routine police stop ended with a couple of arrests thanks to one bite-sized passenger. State troopers who pulled over a car on Route 32 in New Scotland, New York on Thursday got some unexpected assistance from a three-year-old girl. As they were questioning the driver, 26-year-old Scott Hill of Clarksville, the young girl in the back seat unearthed a bag of [marijuana](http://time.com/5295544/war-on-drugs-ptsd-mdma-rick-doblin/ "undefined") that was stashed in the car she was riding in. Not only did the little girl turn over the bag of [marijuana,](http://time.com/5323658/heres-what-americans-think-of-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-most-provocative-ideas/ "undefined") she took things a step further. “The little girl reached under the front seat and retrieved a zippered pouch. She opened it and held it up so the trooper could see the contents,” state police said in a press release. Police secured the package, which contained a pipe and a device for grinding the marijuana, as evidence. They first noticed the young girl because she was not in a “proper child safety restraint.” State police arrested Hill and his front seat passenger, 33-year-old Megan Karl of Clarksville, on charges of unlawful possession of marijuana — a misdemeanor — and endangering the welfare of a child. Police did not confirm how the girl was related to the driver or passenger, but family members of the three-year-old picked her up. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5391440/girl-marijuana-police/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5391440/girl-marijuana-police/"},"headline":"Adults in Big Trouble After 3-Year-Old Girl Hands Bag of Marijuana Over to Police","datePublished":"2018-09-10T13:23:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:54:45.440Z","description":"Driver and passenger arrested after little girl hands over bag of marijuana to police who stopped them.","url":"https://time.com/5391440/girl-marijuana-police/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Bizarre","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5391440/girl-marijuana-police/","name":"Adults in Big Trouble After 3-Year-Old Girl Hands Bag of Marijuana Over to Police"}}]}] ```