Woman Charged with Pill Possession Had Unrestrained Kid in the Backseat: Police

An Indiana woman faces controlled substance possession charges after police spotted an adult passenger who wasn't wearing a seatbelt and a 4-year-old child not in a car seat.

Ursula A. Walker, 36, of the 1400 block of Glenwood Street, Griffith, Indiana, was charged with two counts of possession of a controlled substance and cited for failing to restrain a child and driving with a suspended license on May 25, according to a report.

Police were on patrol at about 8:12 p.m. in the 7700 block of West 159th Street when they saw a vehicle pass by that had front-seat passenger who wasn't in a seatbelt, the report states. After an officer stopped the vehicle, he noticed that a 4-year-old child was sitting in another child's lap in the backseat. Walker reportedly is not the child's mother. She told police the mother was on her way to pick up the kid.

According to the report, police determined that Walker's driver's license was suspended in both Illinois and Indiana. When police went to arrest her, they noticed she was holding pills that an officer identified as Vicoden. Police later recovered other pills that were identified as Tramadol.

Walker claimed that she just lost a prescription bottle for the pills while at Chuck E. Cheese, according to the report.

After she was booked at the station, police placed Walker into a holding cell to wait for a bond hearing in downtown Chicago.

The adult passenger in the car, Steven T. Davis, 40, of the 4800 block of Gary, IN, was wanted on a Glenwood warrant for driving with a suspended license, police said. He was cited for failing to wear a seatbelt and turned over the Glenwood police.

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