Baby on Board ... And Pot and Pills, Cops Claim

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

The report said that 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, recognized Preston’s passenger, Melissa A. Corcoran, 26, also of Evergreen Park, as having multiple outstanding warrants, the report said.

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

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

The report said that the officer asked Preston if he had anything illegal on him. Police said that Preston admitted to holding a bottle of pills so that Corcoran "would not take them all." Preston told officers that the pills came from Corcoran’s boyfriend who lives in Mokena.

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

Police took both Preseton and Corcoran into custody and charged Preston with possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of cannabis 10-30 grams. He has a court appearance on Oct. 3 at the Bridgeview courthouse.

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.