A Mexican citizen who was passed out in his car on his lunch break in Coeur d’Alene after allegedly smoking heroin is in the Kootenai County jail in lieu of $150,000 bail.

Luis Laguna Leal, 25, a framer working at a Coeur d’Alene construction site, was arrested Thursday and charged by police with trafficking heroin, four counts of possession of a controlled substance and two counts of paraphernalia.

At his first appearance in Coeur d’Alene magistrate court, Leal said he would have his wife hire an attorney because his income was likely too high to be assigned a public defender.

Police said Leal was unconscious in a red Honda Accord that was running and parked at 2 p.m. near Hanley Avenue and Madellaine Drive in Coeur d’Alene Place.

Police approached Leal, who was sleeping with his chin on his chest in the car’s front driver’s seat. They saw apparent drug paraphernalia on the seat next to him. When police woke Leal he allegedly tried to escape, but officers handcuffed him.

Leal, who lives in Davenport, Wash., said he was a citizen of Mexico working at a building site as a framer and that he had smoked heroin during his lunch break and passed out.

Officers found 4.5 ounces of heroin valued around $4,000 inside the car as well as prescription drugs, Methadone and a measuring scale, police said.

Leal told officers he did not sell brown tar heroin, according to a police report.

Trafficking heroin carries a minimum sentence of 10 years in prison and a maximum life sentence. An Oct. 8 preliminary hearing is scheduled.