A Pittsburgh man is accused of trying to hide a golf ball-sized rock of crack cocaine and several bricks of heroin in his shoe.

Harrison police said they found the drugs on Andre Blair, 25, after an officer pulled over a car he was in on Freeport Road near Highlands Middle School on Monday, according to a criminal complaint.

“You got me,” Blair allegedly told an officer after the drugs fell out of his shoe.

Officer Christopher Cottone was monitoring traffic near the school when he clocked a car going 28 mph — nearly twice the school zone speed limit of 15 mph.

When Cottone pulled the car over, the report states, he smelled marijuana coming from the car and on the driver’s breath and saw marijuana in the center console.

Police identified the driver of the car as Matthew Anthony Brown, 34, of Penn Hills. Blair was in the passenger seat.

Both men were removed from the car, searched, and eventually arrested.

“It’s all about looking beyond the traffic stop,” Harrison police Chief Michael Klein said Tuesday.

As Blair was being taken to a police vehicle for questioning, the report states, Cottone noticed he was limping.

Cottone had Blair sit in the vehicle and the officer took off Blair’s shoe. As he did, a clear plastic sandwich-size bag that contained the crack and heroin fell out, the complaint said. Blair also was in possession of $324 and two cellphones.

Blair remained in the Allegheny County Jail on Tuesday morning after failing to post $20,000 bail. He has been charged with numerous drug offenses. His attorney didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Klein said charges against Brown are pending and will be filed after a search warrant is executed on the car. That is scheduled to take place Wednesday.

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