Siberian couple stashes heroin in son’s mouth

Police in East Siberia have detained a married couple who hid a bag of heroin in their son’s mouth, police said on Tuesday. The incident occurred in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia’s third largest city, when a police patrol spotted a parked car with a man, a woman and a nine-year old boy inside. When the adults saw the police they became nervous and then the woman put a gray package into the boy’s mouth. After that she opened the door and threw another package out onto the road. Subsequent examination showed the package contained five grams of heroin. The couple faces a number of criminal charges, including illegal acquisition, storage, transit, production and processing of narcotic substances and could be sentenced to up to three years in prison if convicted.