SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WJW) – Springfield police officers Austin Branham and Ty Klapp were patrolling Wednesday evening when one car caught their attention.

They ran the tag and Klapp said he was able to confirm that the driver had a suspended license and an outstanding warrant.

“Iniated a traffic stop of the vehicle, made contact with the driver who had a suspended license and a warrant for her arrest.” said Branham.

Branham said they pulled Victoria Page-Videl over and when they approached the car, she did not want to open the door, telling them there was a raccoon between her feet.

“At first, obviously, I thought it was some kind of joke and then I looked down and there was Chewy sitting at her feet looking up at me,” said Branham.

Chewy is a pet raccoon that Page-Videl said she got when it was very little after its mother was hit by a car.

“I placed her under arrest and detained her for a warrant, walked back to my car and then when I went up to the vehicle, we found the raccoon in the driver’s seat,” said Branham. “The raccoon, Chewy, popped his head up and when I turned to look inside the vehicle to make sure he doesn’t hop out, that’s when I noticed he was holding a glass methamphetamine pipe.”

He took the pipe away and immediately noticed that the raccoon had a second one in his hands.

“Chewy seemed extremely playful. He was kind of just sitting there, looking up at us. He was playing around with a plastic bag on the floor. He was going between the driver’s seat and the passenger seat. You know, playing around,” said Branham.

Officers confiscated the paraphernalia as well as materials from the car they said field tested positive for methamphetamine and cocaine.

Page-Videl was arrested on additional drug charges.

Branham’s body camera video of the raccoon giving officers drug paraphernalia has generated attention from as far away as Australia.

“I guess as humorous as it is having an animal… with drug paraphernalia, you have to more so think about the driver of the vehicle and, you know ,her needing the help that she’s going to get,” said Klapp.

NewsNation affiliate WJW caught up with Page-Videl at a home address she gave police for the report. The house has been condemned and is without utilities.

She admitted she has been living in her car along with the raccoon and two dogs.

“I could have had a place to live, but I would have to give up my animals, ” she said.

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources allows people to keep animals like Chewy as pets, but they have to meet certain requirements and have special permits.

Page-Videl told WJW she did not have a permit and did not know how to go about getting one. When asked if we could see Chewy, she took us to another car parked outside of the home.

She told us the house, which she does not own, had been condemned for about a year and that animal wardens had come out several times before and asked her to surrender the raccoon.

“The game warden told me I had to find a place for him and I told the truth, that I wouldn’t,” she said. “They said, ‘would you surrender him? and I said, ‘what are you going to do with him?’ They said he is too human imprinted and they would euthanize him and that broke my heart,” said Page-Videl.

Although Chewy was handling the meth pipes, police do not believe he was directly exposed to any drugs.

Page-Videl chose not to discuss much about the drugs with a pending court case, but did say the drugs and the paraphernalia were not hers.

“Honest to God, it was not mine and I can’t say whose it was because it was somebody that I care about,” she said.

Police are also now working with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources to determine the future of Chewy.

Page-Videl insisted she would not have done anything to harm any of her pets.

“They mean everything to me. I mean, I would die for my animals, for real,” she said.