EVERETT — A Marysville man has been arrested for investigation of smoking methamphetamine in his car with his 10-year-old son in the passenger seat.
Now it will be up to the judicial system to determine if he was a bad dad.
Tulalip police arrested the suspect, 30, early Thursday morning near the Quil Ceda Creek Casino. He’s accused of possessing illegal drugs and criminal endangerment of a child. Both are felonies.
“He was smoking meth with his 10-year-old child in the car,” Snohomish County deputy prosecutor Toni Montgomery alleged in Everett District Court Friday.
Police said they reviewed footage on closed-circuit TV showing the suspect smoking from a glass tube inside the vehicle. The suspect allegedly acknowledged that he was smoking illegal drugs, according to a police report.
A judge set bail at $10,000 Friday.
The Herald is not reporting the suspect’s name to protect the identity of the child.
Tulalip police alleged the man also was in possession of heroin. He was detained around 6:40 a.m.
It was not immediately clear where the boy was taken after the man’s arrest.
Thursday’s arrest was not the man’s first brush with the law.
He was sentenced to prison in 2004 for seven counts of forgery and one count of theft.
As a juvenile, he was convicted of burglary.
In that case, he and a man he called “Crash” broke into an Everett Police Department vehicle impound lot where they tripped a silent alarm.
They were believed to have stolen a car stereo, amplifiers and a glass drug pipe.
Eric Stevick: 425-339-3446, stevick@heraldnet.com
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