Police discovered the body of a 4-year-old girl inside a home in California where two adults had overdosed, and evidence at the scene indicates she had been dead for some time while the adults continued to take drugs. According to NBC Los Angeles, police responded to a report of a possible medical emergency at a …
On Tuesday, police in North Carolina announced that they upgraded a woman’s criminal charges to murder in February’s overdose death of the woman’s 14-year-old daughter. WITN reported that Haylee Wood died after her mother, Nancy Kellum, 37, gave her and a 12-year-old relative methamphetamine and fentanyl-laced heroin. The Onslow County Sheriff’s Office said in a …
A Tennessee couple has been charged with aggravated child abuse when they were found overdosing in their car with their 2-year-old daughter in the back seat, WKRN reports. Leslie Lucas, 23, and Lindsey Vincion, 25, were stopped Thursday at an intersection near Antioch High School in Nashville’s Antioch neighborhood, according to the arrest warrant. A …
An 11-month-old boy required three doses of the overdose-reversing medicine naloxone on Wednesday when he ingested opioids while his drug-addled parents slept, NBC Philadelphia reported. Kristen Bristow and Charles Salzman Jr were charged with aggravated assault, endangering the welfare of children, recklessly endangering another person and other charges. The child’s grandfather found Bristow and Salzman …
Months after a missing Ohio boy’s body was reportedly found in a shallow grave on a farm, authorities announced on Wednesday that they’ve arrested someone in connection with his death. A Caroll County grand jury indicted Matthew Little, 29, was indicted on 15 criminal charges in the death of Jonathon Minard, 14. Carroll County Sheriff …
Authorities in New Jersey have filed criminal charges against a mother who was allegedly overdosing on heroin when she rolled over on her 13-month-old son, killing him. Antoinette King, 33, was arrested and charged with second-degree endangering the welfare of a child following Saturday’s death of her son, Jeremiah. The Cinnaminson Patch reported that the toddler’s …
A Washington man who confessed to raping an 18-year-old woman as she suffered a deadly drug overdose was sentenced to less than three years in prison on Thursday. Per The Everett Daily Herald, Brian Varela, 20, will spend 34 months behind bars in connection with February’s death of Alyssa Noceda. Noceda overdosed after snorting crushed pills Varela, then 19, …
A Georgia mother who smothered her 8-month-old son in July did so while suffering a methamphetamine overdose which resulted in her own death, state officials announced this week. Per The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Holly Whitley, 31, and her son, Alex Fuentes, were found dead in an Acworth home on July 17. The woman’s 2-year-old daughter was in the …
Ohio police said passersby rescued a 1-year-old girl from a hot car last week as her parents overdosed in a Canton parking lot. Speaking with “Inside Edition,” Eric Asher said he and his fiancée, Alexandria Whitt, were driving down the road when they saw a couple lying motionless outside a car and a baby sitting in the …
An Indiana father is accused of forgoing medical treatment for his 8-year-old son who ingested his meth and ultimately died of an overdose. According to The Tribune, a toxicology report released Thursday revealed Curtis Collman III had 18,000 nanograms of methamphetamine—180 times the lethal limit—of methamphetamine in his bloodstream when he died June 21. The 8-year-old reportedly …
Demi Lovato had reportedly partied all night before her overdose Tuesday—and the people who celebrated with her are said to have fled the scene before help arrived. Law enforcement sources told TMZ the singer’s team, not partygoers, were present when EMTs and police came to tend to Lovato, 25. Additionally, a source divulged to Us Weekly …
Three women found dead in an Akron, Ohio, home last week possibly overdosed on fentanyl, one of the women’s mothers revealed. Per the Cleveland Scene, girlfriends Ashtyn Andrade and Tara Williams had invited Courtney Collier to their home Friday to celebrate Andrade’s 20th birthday. Police found the three women dead Saturday night after Collier’s mother and boyfriend …
