Man Crashes Car; Passenger Hides Heroin In Pants, Police say

James Mebane, a passenger in a car that crashed on the Hutch yesterday, had a giant Ziploc bag of heroin inside his pants, police said.  Inside that bag were 250 smaller bags of heroin, worth about $2,500, said Westchester County police spokesman Kieran O'Leary.

Mebane, 48, and driver Phyllis Woodhouse-McGarr, 59, both of Bridgeport, Conn., were charged with first-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a felony.

Their vehicle lost control and struck a guard rail at 2:15 a.m. both were standing outside the vehicle when the tow truck arrived. As Detective Joseph Berardi was speaking with the driver he noticed the passenger "quickly duck inside the vehicle, grab something and shove it down the front of his pants," O'Leary said.

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