Police: Woman eats methamphetamine, overdoses during traffic stop

FRIENDSWOOD, TX (KTRK) -- Two people are behind bars after police in Friendswood caught them with prescription pills and meth. Officers say one of them ate some of the drugs and had to go to a hospital.

Clifton Perez, 40, and Nicole Smith, 35, got arrested last week outside Green Elementary School. Officers stopped the car, then searched it and found meth, hydrocodone and other prescription pills. Authorities say Smith them told them she ate some of the meth. She got taken to a hospital for an overdose.

Both are charged with drug possession.