BY DAN HILDEBRAN
Monitor Editor
STARKE— Bradford deputies arrested a Starke woman after her child shared THC-laced candy with other neighborhood children, prompting some of the victims to be treated at a hospital.
THC is the psychoactive compound in marijuana.
Adrienne Leigh Jones, 27, was arrested for five counts of child neglect, possession of marijuana and possession of drug equipment.
The incident occurred in the Shady Creek Mobile Home Park on Southeast County Road 230A, also known as Bethel Church Road.
According to an arrest report, on Thursday, Feb. 10, several parents in the mobile home park noticed that their children were acting strange. One parent took her child to a hospital’s emergency department, while another mother started to question the remaining children.
“She gathered that the children received candy from (another child) and the children stated the candy tasted like cigarettes or weed,” wrote Bradford detective Jake Whitehead in an arrest report. “(The mother) administered a urine drug test to her son, which tested positive for THC being present in his system.”
Another parent reported that she took her child to the emergency department after her son began acting strange and told her that his head was spinning, and he felt like his teeth were growing.
Whitehead wrote that when he drove to the defendant’s residence to interview her, he discovered an active warrant for her arrest.
Whitehead wrote that he also spoke to the defendant’s son, who told him he found what he thought were warhead candies in the home and then shared them with his friends.
“(The son) advised that he read the wrapper of the candy which said ‘Budheads’,” wrote Whitehead. “He further stated that his mother noticed that he had the candy and she then punished him by grounding him. (The boy) added that after eating the candies it made him very sleepy and he overslept the next morning and missed school.”
The defendant told Whitehead that the THC infused edibles were originally in her purse. However, when she searched for something else in the bag, she placed the edibles on the kitchen table.
Also on the defendant’s kitchen table were 3.7 grams of marijuana that she said she purchased from a neighbor, in addition to other drug paraphernalia and scales.
