Crime & Safety

Police: Drugs Found in Car of Evergreen Park Residents with Baby in Backseat

Police say the Evergreen Park residents had marijuana and prescription pills on them while driving around with their baby daughter in the car.

After receiving a call of a car driving erratically on the road around 9:30 p.m. Aug. 22, Oak Lawn police found a couple searching the floor of their car with a baby in the backseat in a local gas station parking lot.

The report said officers approached the car in the Marathon Gas Station parking lot at 3831 W. 95th St. in Evergreen Park.

While speaking to Michael G. Preston, 30, of Evergreen Park, officers recognized Preston’s passenger, Melissa A. Corcoran, 26, also of Evergreen Park, as having multiple outstanding warrants, reports said.

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According to police, Preston said he and Corcoran were looking for their daughter’s bottle.

After confirming Corcoran’s warrants, police said officers arrested her and found two blue pills labeled M and C 14 clenched in her fists.

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The officer asked Preston if he had anything illegal on him and Preston admitted having a bottle of pills so Corcoran "would not take them all," according to reports. Preston told officers the pills came from Corcoran’s boyfriend who lives in Mokena.

Police said they searched Preston and found a bag of marijuana in his pocket, and a glass pipe out in the open inside the car. Officers said they also found three more blue pills on the driver’s side floorboards.

Police took both Preston and Corcoran into custody. Preston was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of 10 to 30 grams of marijuana, and is set to appear at the Bridgeview courthouse Oct. 3.

Corcoran was charged with possession of a controlled substance. At the time of this report, she was being held pending a bond hearing.

The toddler in the back seat of the car was placed in the custody of her grandmother at the scene of the incident.

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