GASTONIA, N.C. -- Three weeks after giving birth in a speeding car to Gaston County's first baby of 2019, police say a Gastonia woman has been using the same vehicle to operate a methamphetamine business.

Jessica Dawn Killian, 32, was arrested at the Econo Lodge on Broadcast Street 1:16 Tuesday morning. Police say she had 36 grams of meth that she planned to manufacture, sell and deliver. She carried baggies and scales, and ran the operation out of a 2011 Chevrolet Cruze, according to police.

On Jan. 1, she was in the passenger seat of the same car, her boyfriend speeding down the interstate from the couple's then-home in Grover in an attempt to make it to CaroMont Regional Medical Center in time to give birth to her fourth child.

The pair didn't make it, and she instead gave birth to Atom Bomb Sain near the Kings Mountain weigh station while the car was still moving around 5:55 a.m.

It was the couple's plan to name the boy Atom Bomb all along, and Killian later said he "really did come out like a bomb." Killian's 5-year-old daughter and one of Killian's friends witnessed the birth from the back seat.

The child weighed 7 pounds, 14 ounces and was 20 inches long and healthy at CaroMont the next day.

But three weeks later, Killian reportedly possessed drugs in front of the Gastonia motel.

It's unclear who has custody of the young boy. Department of Health and Human Services spokeswoman Brittain Kenney says her agency is prohibited by law from discussing specific cases.

Employees at the Gastonia auto body shop where the baby's father, Randy "Earl" Sain, was working on Jan. 2 said the man no longer worked there. Earl Sain's mother, Theresa Sain, declined to say specifically who the baby is with, but that "Atom's in good hands."

Killian is charged with felony counts of trafficking in methamphetamine, possession with the intent to manufacture, sell and deliver methamphetamine and maintaining a vehicle for a controlled substance and a misdemeanor count of possession of drug paraphernalia.

She also has pending drug charges from December for possessing and manufacturing drugs.

She was booked into Gaston County Jail on Tuesday under $75,000 bond.

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