NASHVILLE, Tenn. -
Metro police discovered an eight-month-old baby inside a rolling meth lab during a routine traffic stop Thursday afternoon in Hermitage, outside of Nashville.
Officers stopped a Toyota 4Runner with Indiana tags for inoperable brake lights at the intersection of Old Hickory Boulevard near Plantation Drive around 3 p.m.
The driver, Stephen Dragstrem, 41, and his girlfriend, Cambria Zieger, 21, said they were passing through Nashville from Indiana.
Also in the vehicle were Zieger's eight-month-old daughter and a pit bull puppy.
Officers requested and received permission to check the vehicle.
Found hidden inside a dog food bag were chemicals commonly used to make methamphetamine. Also discovered were coffee filters, tubing and batteries also used in the manufacture of meth.
Four weapons, two of them loaded shotguns, were also discovered.
While on the scene, police said Dragstrem discarded a straw that he said had been used to feed the infant girl.
The straw field tested positive for meth residue.
Dragstrem and Zieger are each charged with promotion of meth manufacture, violating the crooks with guns law and possession of drug paraphernalia.
They were booked into the Metro jail in lieu of $75,000 bond each.
The Tennessee Department of Children's Services has assumed custody of Zieger's child.
Metro Animal Control took custody of the puppy.
Metro police discovered an eight-month-old baby inside a rolling meth lab during a routine traffic stop Thursday afternoon in Hermitage, outside of Nashville.
Officers stopped a Toyota 4Runner with Indiana tags for inoperable brake lights at the intersection of Old Hickory Boulevard near Plantation Drive around 3 p.m.
The driver, Stephen Dragstrem, 41, and his girlfriend, Cambria Zieger, 21, said they were passing through Nashville from Indiana.
Also in the vehicle were Zieger's eight-month-old daughter and a pit bull puppy.
Officers requested and received permission to check the vehicle.
Found hidden inside a dog food bag were chemicals commonly used to make methamphetamine. Also discovered were coffee filters, tubing and batteries also used in the manufacture of meth.
Four weapons, two of them loaded shotguns, were also discovered.
While on the scene, police said Dragstrem discarded a straw that he said had been used to feed the infant girl.
The straw field tested positive for meth residue.
Dragstrem and Zieger are each charged with promotion of meth manufacture, violating the crooks with guns law and possession of drug paraphernalia.
They were booked into the Metro jail in lieu of $75,000 bond each.
The Tennessee Department of Children's Services has assumed custody of Zieger's child.
Metro Animal Control took custody of the puppy.