The Chester County, Pennsylvania, District Attorney (DA) says that two drug counselors at a southeastern Pennsylvania addiction facility overdosed and died after taking drugs while at work on Monday. CNN reports that first responders were called to the Freedom Ridge Recovery Lodge in West Brandywine Township on Monday afternoon, after two live-in drug counselors reportedly overdosed on heroin. …
An 11-year-old Massachusetts boy helped police catch a suspected heroin dealer: His own father. According to Fox 43, an 11-year-old boy from Lawrence called 911 after he found a suitcase full of illegal drugs wrapped in sandwich bags in their home. When investigators arrived, they identified the substance as heroin mixed with Fentanyl, a potent …
An Ohio couple who allegedly overdosed on heroin while their 3-month-old was strapped in a car seat were saved after their son ran to a relative’s home and got help. WLWT reported that Chelsie Marshall and Lee Johnson allegedly overdosed Thursday morning in their Middletown home. Investigators said their 5-year-old son walked blocks without shoes to his stepgrandfather’s house and …
Marcus Lee was at his mother’s house when he overdosed. She has now hired a lawyer and is no longer communicating with police.
A Manhattan couple accused of sexually assaulting a woman during a group sex encounter at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, last year have been vindicated, as prosecutors abruptly dropped the charges last week. According to the Daily News, Summit County prosecutors said they dropped the charges against Anne Hardcastle and her boyfriend …
The little boy was on his way back from Disneyland when a drunk driver plowed into his family’s vehicle.
A New Mexico mom is facing child abuse charges after she allegedly led police on an alcohol-fueled car chase — with her two young children in the vehicle. According to KRQE News, Shirlena Charley, 23, was arrested after leading police on a pursuit while her two young children were in the car. Albuquerque police released …
During a court hearing on Monday, an Ohio judge slammed a man who passed out in a car in March, apparently high on heroin, while his 9-year-old daughter frantically called 911 from the vehicle. WLWT5 reports that Charles Dove, 45, pleaded “no contest” to child endangering after getting high on heroin earlier this year and passing …
A Scranton, Pennsylvania, man is facing several charges for allegedly selling heroin to an informant while holding his infant daughter. Authorities confiscated hundreds of bags of heroin from Eric M. Ward, 33, and Katherine Huanira, 27, on Thursday, according to The Scranton Times-Tribune. The investigation was carried out by the state police vice unit, borough police, and Lackawanna …
Officers checking on the welfare of a resident stumbled upon a possible homicide, an apparent suicide and a large-scale marijuana growing operation, authorities said.
A nine-month-old baby in Texas appears to have been injected with methamphetamine. According to an arrest affidavit from the Lamesa, Texas, police department obtained by CBS 7, an infant girl brought to the hospital last Thursday with methamphetamine in her system was injected with the drug by a needle. At around 10 p.m., when Destiny Lozano picked …
Portsmouth, Ohio, police say that a witness found a toddler unconscious on a sidewalk a little after midnight on Wednesday, apparently from a heroin overdose. WSAZ reports that a “frantic” witness approached an officer and said that she found a toddler girl on a sidewalk, passed out from what seemed to be a drug overdose. She brought …
