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MORGAN — Morgan County Sheriff's investigators say that a Wyoming man used his child's birthday money to buy a quarter pound of marijuana.
Andrew Mook, 28, was stopped in a car east of Morgan city limits because his license plate light was out, according to deputies.
The Standard-Examiner reports there was a 16-year-old behind the wheel and a 6-year-old boy and a 2-year-old girl in the backseat, as well as a 34-year-old man.
The deputy who pulled the car over just happened to have a Labrador retriever with him trained in sniffing for drugs.
A search yielded the marijuana along with three mostly empty baggies believed to have once contained marijuana. There was also a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun in the car.
Mook is already a convicted felon and was booked on charges of possession of a firearm by a restricted person, possession of marijuana, paraphernalia as well as child endangerment.
The Standard-Examiner reports that after being booked into jail, the daughter's mother called the jail upset because at least $60 of money spent on the marijuana was saved for the girl's birthday. Based on street values the marijuana would have cost between $1,200 to $1,600.
