Expectant Mom Stuffs Ecstasy Down Pants: Prosecutor

Police charged an expectant mom with hiding ecstasy down her pants in the parking lot of a Burbank motel, prosecutors said in court on Wednesday. Her friend was arrested and charged, too.

Emma O’Connell, 24, and Danielle Alanis, 47, appeared before Cook County Judge Peter Felice, each on a felony charge of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver.

The prosecutor said police responded to a call of a suspicious vehicle in the parking lot at the Best Western Midway Motel, 8220 S. Cicero Ave., Burbank, around 2:45 p.m. Jan. 5.

Officers said as they approached the vehicle, O’Connell appeared to put something down her pants.

O’Connell admitted to the officers to having stuffed pills down her pants which she was going to sell to friends. She pulled out two plastic bags containing 18 white pills of suspect ecstasy, the prosecutor said.

Alanis allegedly admitted to driving O’Connell to the reported sale for which she was to receive $10. According to the prosecutor, Alanis told police she planned to use the money to “buy a sack of weed.”

The assistant public defender told the judge O’Connell was pregnant.

“I certainly hope she’s not doing drugs,” Judge Felice said.

The assistant public defender replied that she was not.

Both women were given $25,000 I-bonds. They are to submit to random drug testing while their cases are pending.