Police: parents arrested with baby, drugs

PANAMA CITY BEACH

Two parents were arrested Saturday night after police watched them do a drug deal with their baby in their car, according to the Panama City Beach Police Department.

Gregory Scarver, 26, or Panama City, and Schalene Brady, 22, of Chipley, were arrested after investigators with PCBPD watched them do a deal for a felony amount of marijuana in the parking lot of Wal-Mart on Front Beach Road around 10:20 p.m. Saturday.

Scarver and Brady had their 3-month-old son in the car during the transaction, police said. Police found pot and unlawful prescription medications in the car near the child.

Scarver was charged with sale of a controlled substance, resisting an officer without violence, possession of drug paraphernalia and child neglect. Brady was charged with possession of a controlled substance without a prescription, principle to the sale of controlled substance and child neglect.

Scarver and Brady were booked into the Bay County Jail, and the Department of Children and Families responded. The child was placed in the care of a relative.