RUTLAND, Vt. -- A Whitehall man and woman were arrested this week after the woman used the couple’s 1-year-old child to smuggle drugs into a Vermont jail, police said.

Inmate Gregory Munukka Jr., 26, and girlfriend Michelle L. Doaner, 25, both of whom gave Vermont State Police an address in Whitehall, were charged after an investigation that began when Munukka was caught with the prescription drug buprenorphine in Marble Valley Correctional Facility on Monday, police said.

Four doses of the drug, which is used to treat opioid addicts, were found on Munukka after he had a visit with his 1-year-old child, authorities said.

Police determined Doaner had hidden the drug on the child and Munukka retrieved it during the visit, officials said. The two had conspired together to hide drugs on the child, Vermont State Police said.

He was charged with possession of narcotics, while she was charged with dispensing narcotics, transportation of regulated drugs into a detention facility and cruelty to a child under the age of 10, all felonies.

Munukka, who was being held in the jail on charges related to seven home burglaries in the Rutland area, remained in the jail. Doaner’s release status was not available.

Washington County Department of Social Services was notified about the matter, police said.