STUART — It could be called a cheeky response.

Heather Zachman, 28, told a Martin County sheriff’s deputy that “in her butt cheeks” she had a “rig,” or hypodermic needle, and a pipe, an arrest affidavit states.

The case of the lady accused of an assemblage of stuff in her duff happened Oct. 4 as deputies noticed Zachman driving a red Toyota.

Investigators said they knew Zachman’s license was suspended, and tried to stop her in the area of Southeast Ocean Boulevard and Southeast Monterey Road.

She slowed to about 5 mph and “appeared to be concealing something in between her legs,” the affidavit states.

When Zachman got out of the Toyota “her shorts were in a manner consistent with concealing something,” the affidavit states.

She handed over a $1 bill with crack cocaine that was in her shorts.

On the way to jail, Zachman started squirming.

Asked whether she had anything else, Zachman fessed up to having a pipe and a “rig,” or hypodermic needle, in the cheeks of her buttocks.

Investigators got to the bottom of things, recovering two hypodermic needles and a cocaine-smoking pipe.

The affidavit doesn’t state why the alleged contraband was in her caboose, but perhaps her shorts lacked pockets.

Investigators evidently didn’t look the other way or turn the other cheek.

Instead, they jailed Zachman, of the 2700 block of Northeast Indian River Drive in Jensen Beach, on charges of possession of cocaine and possession of drug paraphernalia.