Two police officers collared a Connecticut man who was driving in Queens Sunday with his 13-year-old son — and about $70,000 worth of cocaine inside his car, cops said.
Police officers Vincent Siraco and Michael Sardone were on foot patrol on Jamaica Avenue near 165th Street in Jamaica at about 1:55 p.m. when they noticed a 2007 Honda Accord with heavily tinted windows, cops said.
The two cops smelled marijuana after they motioned for the driver — Silvestre Mahon — to pull over, cops said.
Inside the car, the cops found a gravity knife, two small baggies believed to hold crack and marijuana, and Mahon’s 13-year-old son.
“I’m pretty sure he was putting in his application for father of the year,” joked a law enforcement source.
In the trunk, cops found a backpack with two kilos, or about four and a half pounds, of coke, cops said.
One of the bundles of cocaine was wrapped in duct tape while the other has a picture of a leaping humpback whale on the packaging tape, according to a picture released by cops.
Mahon, 34, hails from Norwich and has two sealed arrests plus one for possession of a loaded gun, cops said.
He was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, weapons possession, acting in a manner injurious to a child — and with a window tint violation.
The 13-year-old was released into his mother’s custody.