9-month-old tests positive for methamphetamine, cocaine
Posted on Friday, March 3, 2006
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ROGERS — Warrants have been issued for the parents of a 9-month-old boy who tested positive for cocaine, methamphetamine and amphetamine after spending 23 days in their care.
The boy’s parents — Carrie Stills, 27, and Timothy Lee Scott, 32 — were arrested Feb. 16 on charges of interfering with child custody and are currently at the Benton County Jail. Stills had taken the boy from his legal guardian on Jan. 24 after being released on a transport bond, according to police.
Stills and Scott admitted to doing drugs in the same room as their son, according to a police affidavit. Scott said he smoked cocainelaced marijuana and injected methamphetamine, and Stills claimed she ingested marijuana and methamphetamine, the affidavit states. Both parents said drugs were not intentionally given to their child, but the boy may have been exposed to fumes or while playing with toys on the floor. According to the report, Stills said the boy spent the 23 days in Rogers at Scott’s house or his mother’s house. "It just makes you sick," said Kelley Cradduck, public information officer for the Rogers Police Department. He said that in his experience in narcotics, residual contact with a drug doesn’t result in a positive test.
Stills was convicted in February 2005 of possessing a controlled substance (methamphetamine) and possessing drug paraphernalia, and she was sentenced to serve 10 years at the Arkansas Department of Correction, plus a three-year suspended sentence. She was released on a transport bond Jan. 24 that was issued by Judge Finch, according to the affidavit.
In December, Scott was charged with possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine) and possession with intent to deliver (marijuana). He appeared for a plea hearing Feb. 16 at the Benton County Courthouse, where he and Stills were arrested on charges of interfering with child custody. "Had we been given an opportunity to object about the transport bond, we would have vehemently objected," said Kip Wittemore, deputy prosecuting attorney for Benton County.
According to the affidavit written by Rogers Police Detective John Oldfather, "Scott said he and Stills both knew they were going to prison and they were ‘just partying it up’ and they ‘were not thinking about it. ’"
After his parents’ arrest, the 9-month-old boy was returned to his guardian, Georgia Tinker, who took the child to be medically examined and tested for drugs because, according to the affidavit, "he was acting ‘ fussy. ’"
A hair follicle of the boy’s was tested and came back positive for drug use. The boy also had an ear infection, the affidavit states.