FORT PIERCE — Don’t you hate it when you tell police you have no idea how crack cocaine got in your vehicle, but an in-car camera shows otherwise?

Something like that apparently happened late July 28 or early July 29 in Fort Pierce, an affidavit states.

Fort Pierce police in the area of North 13th Street and Avenue D about 11:05 p.m. reported spotting a Kia leave a convenience store. The headlights weren’t activated, and they stopped it, the affidavit states.

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The driver told police he was ferrying those in the back to Port St. Lucie. Investigators reported seeing prescription painkillers in the center console and asked the driver to step out.

The driver said he took the passenger, Peter O’Brien, 40, to a store at North 13th Street and Avenue D and a woman got in.

“I have nothing to do with what is going on,” the driver is quoted as saying.

Meanwhile, an officer noticed crack cocaine on the floorboard.

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O’Brien said at the store they asked a woman for $100 of marijuana.

He said that woman took the money and went behind a bush. He said a second woman got in and he never got the pot.

He said he had no clue how the crack got in the Kia.

Investigators appeared to figure it out after learning the Kia had audio and video equipment that captured the incident.

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According to an affidavit, the video showed a woman get in and hand O’Brien the crack as police stopped them. O’Brien started to put the drugs in a cigarette pack, but threw them down as police pulled them over.

O’Brien, of Port St. Lucie, was arrested on a possession of cocaine charge.

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