Police have arrested the mother of a Wisconsin teenager who was found dead in a pond and accused her of going on a huffing binge, WTMJ-TV reports. Prosecutors on Thursday charged Pauline Sanders, 39, with five felony counts of bail jumping and a misdemeanor count of intentionally abusing a hazardous substance. According to authorities, Sanders’ …
A Gainesville, Florida, mother is accused of partaking in a fatal drug binge with her child’s father in the presence of their 4-year-old daughter. The Gainesville Sun reports that police arrested Taylor Perry, 23, Monday on child abuse charges. According to an arrest report, Perry was entering a rehabilitation program for her substance abuse issues. …
A British law student vacationing in Spain died when five bags of ecstasy exploded in her stomach, a hearing on Monday revealed. Providing evidence, the mother of Rebecca Brock, 18, speculated that her daughter was forced into being a drug mule while in Ibiza. The Telegraph reported that Brock was found in her hotel room with …
A teacher at a private elementary school in Vallejo, California, was arrested on Friday for allegedly dealing heroin and methadone. KRON 4 reports that 36-year-old Delicia Gomez, of Napa, was arrested at her home on outstanding warrants of possession of illegal pain pills and identity theft. While searching the teacher’s Napa home, police reportedly found methadone …
A New York man has admitted that he was on drugs when he murdered a mother and her young daughter by choking them and then slashing their throats earlier this month, the Post-Star reports. Bryan Redden, 21, told police that he was “high on drugs” and had “done heroin” when he killed 33-year-old Crystal Riley …
The opioid crisis in the United States has been declared a national emergency, with more people dying from overdoses than from car crashes. For Rebecca Savage, it has claimed her two teenage sons and launched her on a mission. Nick, 19, and Jack, 18, died on the same day, hours after attending a high school …
Police alleged that an Indiana teenager was speeding and on opiates when she caused a wreck that killed two sisters. People reported that Alia Sierra, 17, is being charged as an adult on 10 felony counts, including reckless homicide, causing death while operating a motor vehicle with a controlled substance in the blood, and criminal …
A mother of four opened up about the day that changed her life forever, when her two sons overdosed on opioids and lost their lives on the same day. According to Rebecca Savage, June 24, 2015, seemed like any other Saturday, with nothing out of the ordinary—-at least at first. Her two oldest children, Nick, 19, …
A woman was arrested outside of a Fort Myers, Florida, middle school on Tuesday after a sheriff’s deputy spotted her allegedly chopping up cocaine on her iPhone and snorting it while sitting in her car. FOX reports that the incident happened in the school pickup line at Lexington Middle School, during afternoon pickup time, a little …
‘She was my only daughter, my best friend’
A child can become comatose from ingesting marijuana
The suspect said a hookah-smoking caterpillar made him do it
