Broken Arrow couple arrested after meth components found in child’s backpack
Police found meth lab materials in a toddler’s pink “Dora the Explorer” backpack Tuesday night.
The child’s parents were jailed and the two young children with them were referred to the Department of Human Services, police said.
Officers stopped a car that did not have an operating tag or third brake light about 10 p.m. Tuesday at 71st Street and 193rd East Avenue. They found a married couple and their children, ages 1 and 2, in the car, an arrest report said.
The officer smelled burnt marijuana and an odor of methamphetamine manufacturing, the report said. He asked the occupants to get out of the vehicle, and the components of a meth lab were found in the girl’s backpack, the report said.
The parents, Cecil Doyle Martin, 33, and Melissa Dawn Martin, 26, of Broken Arrow, are in the Tulsa Jail on complaints of manufacturing methamphetamine, child endangerment and marijuana possession. They are being held without bond, jail records show.
Melissa Martin told police that she had bought some of the meth lab items and had put the backpack in the car. The report said she also had pseudoephedrine pills and 3.5 grams of marijuana in her pocket.
Cecil Martin has served prison time for unlawful possession of marijuana and possession of a controlled drug with the intent to distribute.
State Department of Corrections records show that he is on probation in a Muskogee County case
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