Reckless dad arrested after he is filmed stumbling down road carrying his six-month-old baby ‘while high on MDMA’
Roger Mumma told police that the cars driving on the Florida were following him
A MAN has been caught high on drugs, stumbling along a busy Florida highway clutching a six-month-old baby in his arms.
Roger Mumma, 29, was spotted wandering down the New Port Richey road on Thursday with a concerned member of the public calling police after spotting the small child in his arms.
When approached by Pasco County officers, the Florida local is barely lucid, with the bizarre encounter caught on video.
The officers approached the man, who is wearing a black shirt and holding the small baby clad in a patterned onesie, with one asking: “Is everything all right?”
Mumma then replies: “Yea, these people just keep following me.”
When officers Deputy John Geradi and Corporal Benjamin Birge ask who is following Mumma, he says: “I don’t know man there’s a bunch of cars following me everywhere I go. I don’t know what’s going on right now.”
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The officers then stop him from walking off even further down the road.
One officer can be heard, saying: “It’s weird because he’s walking down, between the, in the divided highway and not on the sidewalk just down the centre of the road with an infant and he’s looking everywhere behind him like somebody’s following him or something.”
The police then asked Mumma if he had taken any drugs that day, with the father replying “Molly”.
Molly is another name for MDMA and is a psychoactive drug that can cause increased empathy, euphoria, and heightened sensations.
After placing Mumma into the police car, one of the officers can be heard in the video giving the young father a warning.
He says: “You’re on drugs and you’re walking down the e road with your baby. What happens if a car would have come by and hit you guys?”
Cpl Birge later told Fox 13 News: “I didn't want him to run, because of the child, and I really didn't want him to fight because of the kid.”
Mumma has since been charged with resisting an officer with violence, no/minor injuries as well as child neglect.
It is understood the child is being looked after family members.