Enid Police Say Woman Did Drugs While Child Was In Her Car

Enid Police said a woman was doing drugs, possibly smoking fentanyl, inside a car while a 5-year-old child was also in the vehicle.

A passer-by called 911 just before 5 p.m. Saturday, saying he could see the suspect, later identified as 36-year-old Elizabeth Gale, passed out with drugs on her lap.

The suspect was inside a car parked outside a Walmart Neighborhood Market on North Cleveland Street.

"(The car is) running but she has kids in the backseat. But she's, like, knocked out," the caller said. "And she has some pills in her lap."

The caller later noticed that Gale was waking up. But when she came to, the caller said she resumed doing drugs.

"In front of you?" the 911 dispatcher asked.

"Yeah. Like she had her little tin foil and s*** and the windows are rolled up and there's a kid in the backseat," the caller said.

Enid Police said in their incident report they noticed that Gale's "pupils were abnormally constricted."

Police then spoke with the 911 caller, who told them he saw Gale with tin foil, a tube coming out of her mouth, and a lighter underneath, the report stated.

Gale initially denied doing anything illegal, according to the report. Body camera footage from one of the responding officers showed that Gale repeatedly claimed she did not know there was tin foil in her purse.

But Gale would not let officers search her car, the incident report said. Police then called the Garfield County Sheriff's Office's K-9 unit, which detected narcotics, said Cass Rains, public information coordinator with the Enid Police Department.

"Officers and deputies searched the vehicle and located a burnt piece of tin foil that contained drug residue," Rains said.

Police also found multiple disassembled pens in the trunk of Gale's car that were partially melted, along with more burnt foil, the incident report said.

When she was told she would be arrested, Gale told police she had "stuff" on her, said the incident report. She then took out some foil from her pants. One of the foil pieces had a melted blue M30 pill in it, the report stated.

"Visual inspection of the pill, it is believed it was fentanyl," Rains said. "The pill appeared to be slightly melted."

Rains said police sent the pill and the tin foil away to be tested. As of Wednesday, they had not received the results. 

Police said in their incident report that Gale also agreed to take a blood test.

An officer said that based on the tests that were performed, he believed Gale was under the influence of narcotics, the report said.

Officers arrested Gale on complaints of child abuse, possession of drugs, possession of drug paraphernalia, and driving under the influence, the incident report said.

As for the 5-year-old boy in the car with Gale, Rains said the child was alert and appeared to be fine. A team from the Oklahoma Department of Human Services was called to the scene.

Police said the boy was turned over to the custody of his father. On Wednesday afternoon, News 9 talked with the father, who said his son was in school and was doing well.