Tanya McDowell, who became a sympathetic national figure after being charged in April with stealing the education of her young son from the Norwalk school district, offered a Stamford undercover officer crack cocaine, marijuana and the use of prostitutes McDowell was pimping from her aunt's home in Bridgeport, according to warrants for her arrest. Police sources told The Advocate that McDowell took a break from her son's birthday party in late May to sell drugs to an undercover officer at the home on Dover Street in Bridgeport. According to three Norwalk arrest warrants, McDowell, who claimed to be homeless while sending her son to school in Norwalk, sold drugs to officers in Norwalk on three occasions between May 27 and June 3. In one of the Bridgeport warrants, McDowell, who kept her head bowed during the arraignment while wearing a purple top and tan cargo shorts, is alleged to have sold drugs to the undercover officer while she was giving a birthday party for her son, who turned 6 May 24, a Norwalk police source with knowledge of the investigation said. According to the three Norwalk warrants written by veteran Special Services Unit officer Mark Suda, on May 27, the undercover officer from Stamford met McDowell at Marshall's discount clothing store on Westport Avenue and gave him six small knotted plastic baggies of crack cocaine and two small ziplog baggies of suspected marijuana for $110 of city of Norwalk funds. In November, McDowell was arrested in Norwalk for being in possession of marijuana and crack cocaine. Because police found her in possession of dozens of individually packaged baggies containing the drugs, she was charged with possession with intent to sell.