THAT'S WACK! DAD HIDES 500 BAGS OF DOPE & NEEDLES IN HIS SON'S TOY BAG!

A 5-year-old boy strapped into his car seat for a late-night ride was the driver's son - and his decoy.

The New Jersey dad traveling with his kid and a bag filled with the boy's toys was actually a heroin smuggler using the child as a diversion, police said.

The bottom of the black bag was lined with 500 bags of heroin worth $10,000, leading to the Saturday night arrest of Christopher Ennis, 31, according to police.

"He brought the 5-year-old along so he would appear less suspicious to law enforcement and, if he was stopped, he did not believe police would search a child's toy bag," said a statement from police in Sparta, N.J.

Ennis, of Branchville, was pulled over in a routine traffic stop on Route 15 for driving with an expired inspection sticker, police said.

He was following a car driven by Alexander Dewer, 43, of Milford, Pa., who was stopped around 10:30 p.m. for driving with phony license plates.

When the two men gave police conflicting stories, the officers asked if they could search the vehicles. A confident Ennis - who had a long rap sheet - quickly agreed.

"He must have felt good about giving consent, never thinking we'd find anything," Sparta police Sgt. John-Paul Beebe told The Newark Star-Ledger.

He was wrong.

Police found the heroin, along with hypodermic needles, inside the gym bag filled with toys and the little boy's clothes.

Ennis was charged with using a juvenile in a drug distribution scheme, possession of heroin with intent to distribute, child abuse, possession of needles and drug paraphernalia.

The single father was held on $70,000 bail and his son was turned over to the state Division of Youth and Family Services.


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