Orange County baby’s 911 call leads to mother’s drug arrest
ORLANDO, Fla. — A baby’s accidental 911 call led to his mother’s arrest when a deputy saw marijuana, cocaine and mounds of cash on the woman’s coffee table, police said.
A dispatcher who took the phone call heard only gibberish and a baby crying. The dispatcher called the number back, but was told by the boy’s mother that the baby has been playing with the phone and that everything was fine.
Orange County Deputy Sheriff Jeff Mayer decided to check out the call, and stopped by the east Orange County home of 27-year-old Navera Alexcia Noel.
Sheriff’s spokesman Carlos Torres said the woman let Mayer inside the house, where he saw drugs and large amounts of cash lying in plain view on her coffee table.
Mayer alerted narcotics officers, who obtained a search warrant. They found 30 grams of cocaine, 100 grams of marijuana and $69,440 in cash. Also found was a .45-caliber handgun that had been reported stolen in Volusia county.
Authorities estimated the cocaine to be worth between $15,000 and $20,000.
“Ironically, what alerted us to this house was the 911 call,” Torres said. The child “didn’t even know what was going on. He just grabbed the phone to play with it.”
Noel was arrested on charges of possession of cannabis and cocaine with intent to sell, and trafficking in cocaine. She was released from Orange County Jail on $7,500 bond Wednesday evening.
The baby was placed with his grandmother, and the Department of Children & Families is investigating.
Deputies were also looking for Noel’s live-in boyfriend who was not home at the time of the search.
It could not be determined whether Noel had an attorney.
- Associated Press
Orange County baby’s 911 call leads to mother’s drug arrest 
