Crack cocaine and a pipe were found in a car getting a remote car starter installed on Wednesday.

Lt. Randy Ziegler said employees at Auto Air & Cruise, 1734 E. Main Ave., called police at 3:16 p.m. Wednesday to report finding drugs and a drug pipe in a 2006 Chevy Cobalt.

Less than 1 gram of crack cocaine was found in the vehicle, Ziegler said. He said neither the registered owner of the vehicle nor the dealership where the car was purchased had any idea the drugs were in the car or how they got there.

The case is not being investigated further, Ziegler said.

Chris Krein, the owner of CK Auto in Bismarck, said he bought the car at an auto auction in Denver. He sold the car about a week ago.

Krein said the car was damaged when he bought it at auction. He speculated that someone could have hidden drugs in the car's dashboard after wrecking it but said he has no information on the vehicle's past owners. The car possibly could have been repossessed or recovered in a theft or criminal proceeding, he said.

"We don't get the story with the car,"Krein said. "We just get the car."

Coincidentally, Krein had allowed area law enforcement officers and drug dogs to train at the dealership, located at 3405 E. Divide Ave., on Tuesday. He said he let police use about 50 cars in a training exercise where officers hid drugs in vehicles for the dogs to try to find.

(Reach reporter Jenny Michael at 250-8225 or jenny.michael@;bismarcktribune.com.)