As a cop, I've seen how drugs can ruin lives, and these two cases are no different. I just lost those. We have a mom living in a storage unit with her child where cops are going to find tons of drug items. She got pipes, scales, baggies that was mixed in with a children's snacks. And a case where cops are called to a preschool when teachers find a bunch of drugs in a child's backpack. So, technically, there can be 21 counts of child endangerment for both of you guys. But first, cops are called when a child appears in the office of a storage facility. Who'd you call? My manager did, but yeah, this a child. Yes. Okay. I get my mom to say what, sweetie? Can I get my mom to hug? Okay. Um, mom sleeping, but they're not coming tonight. She's sleeping. This morning, I just noticed my day log. This is all that one unit. So, I was we were already just living there. Yeah. Kind of looking around. So, we're going to overlock it and I'm going to tell them, I'm sorry, you're going to have to leave the property. We can't have this. So, we went to go put a red lock on. That little girl came crawling out. Yeah. Yes. Can building. Yeah. I was going to let you take care of that. Oh, go straight down. L building's on the right and it's L5. There's a little Okay, perfect. All right. So, this can be an issue with storage places. They're self-s served, so you can come and go usually during daytime hours, even at night time if you have the access to it. They try to like really really guard against this, but I have seen it happen. Radio roll. Hello. Hi. Hi. Oh, she escaped. Escape is not typically a word you would use as a parent. Oh, sorry. You're okay. What's going on? Um, I was moving. We were moving and uh You were moving? Yeah, it was a late night and we kind of You moving in here? Not necessarily moving in here. I just had to get everything out of my house. Um, it was just it's been rough two days getting everything in here. Okay. Uh, sad. Where are y'all moving to? Probably back to Athens. So, y'all haven't secured a radio. No, not yet. I just got put out uh just a couple days ago. Your husband drive the green Jeep boyfriend. What is he? Or the green F-150? That's just a friend of mine that's had me move. Okay. Yeah, I found him passed out at the other storage units last week. He has one at his. He's the one that um because it it was a very good price. Uh this one. Well, you're Hey, I know where he can live in the storage unit with me. In the front office. I guess they've been staying here cuz they got a portage on outside like a little 5 gallon two and a half gallon bucket with a toilet seat on it. How long have you guys been staying here? I've only moved in here like a day. A day? I've just got everything in here. I wasn't trying to stay here. Right. But where else are you going to go? Oh, I'm I'm going somewhere. I'm not staying here. I just had to get everything in here. But in regards to your child's well-being for running water, food, this called the state of Georgia demands that a child has these certain amount of things, right? Okay. But your child is not having a storage unit. So, I'm asking, where are you planning on taking this child today? I can I'm calling somebody right now to come get me. I just I've only been here for a couple hours. It's not like I've been here for days. Well, you just now you said it was a day and now it's a couple hours. I got back here last night. It's sometime in the middle of the night. The potty is for her. She's 3 years old and potty training. Where do you potty? I mean, I haven't went to the bathroom since I've been back here, I don't think. Okay. I mean, I just haven't. Okay. So, he's trying to establish what's going on here. Obviously, I mean, if this was just a 5 6 hour thing that they were there and they had somewhere to go, somewhere to live, not necessarily child neglect charges coming her way, but it kind of looks like that's not the case, and there could be some criminal charges. All right. Well, let's go to the front. I'm I think I want to talk to you. You can see your daughter. Um, how do you find the child? We went to cuz I were going to overlock the unit since I hadn't heard from her. I was going to lock her out of the gate, shut the unit up because we saw the potty and the PCs. Um, so when she went to put the red locker on, the job came out from underneath. Okay. Since the third they came in on the 5th at 11:29 never left. So the fifth at midnight 40. In and out. In and out. Obviously living there. We'll be right back. A couple friends of mine's been helping me move in here and well, I mean, I've been I rented this like Thursday. Okay. The day before I got my stuff got put out and I just been moving. Do you know what day today is? Tuesday. You know what? Yes, it's October. Do you mind staying by? 7:04. So my suggestion at this point um before we continue to ask her anything cuz there's a bunch of deception you saw the child is completely disheveled and dirty. Uhhuh. Yeah. Um I mean the times that they're coming out 4 a.m. heavy manifestations of drug use. Yeah. Just a quick side note, the cop right there in the middle, brother. Just one badge. Just a pet peeve of mine. You have the embroidered badge. You don't need another badge in your belt, man. Just just go with one. Okay. Sorry. With the obvious physical neglect that we can see with the child, we're starting to get to the point where there will be criminal charges. That being said, I would not ask her any further questions without just advising her. Miranda, right? Smart. But as far as as on record, the child will be deprived in our custody at this time until defects gives us an alternative cuz there's no other family dads in prison. So I'm going to read him. So listen, just as a precaution, I'm just going to read you something, okay? You're not under arrest at this time. I'm just going to advise you of something. Okay? All right, I'm just going to read you this. Just hear me out. Let me read it. Okay. All right. Listen. What did I just say? You're not under arrest. She knows what's coming. She knows what he's going to say to her. And even people I've interviewed before in investigations that haven't been involved with the law a lot, when they hear Miranda, cuz you've heard them in every TV show and on movies, they immediately feel like they're a criminal and they're going to jail. That's how people react to them. Listen, you have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to talk to a lawyer and have him or her present with you while you're being questioned. Do you understand your rights as I explain them to you? All right. So, listen. I'm going to go down some questions, okay? And I need you to be truthful and honest with me because I'm going to be able to figure out whether you're telling me the truth or not. Okay? So, let's just go ahead and put it all out there. When did you start living here? Radio 254. Cuz you've had the you've had you live here. No, I cannot. Okay. When did you come stay here briefly? I got here sometime last night. In the middle of the night. I don't even know what time it was. Okay. When was the last time she drank anything? Um, where were her cups at? So, she has drink now if she needs to. She has water. She's got soda in her cup. I mean, when is the last time a child's had a bath? Last night. Have y'all ever fell asleep here before other than just tonight or just today? No. Listen. So on that sheet that shows every time that you've used your code to get in and out of here, right? Yes, sir. So there's 1 a.m., there's 4 a.m., there's midnights, there's all these other times and you've had your daughter with you every time. Is there anything inside that unit that we're going to find? Where was she though? Nothing at all. No. Okay. All right. Are you guys good up here? Thank you, sir. Not sure how they got to be able to search this unit. They certainly didn't get a search warrant. It doesn't show they did. She didn't seem like she gave consent. I know with storage units, if they're overlocked and the manager gives permission, it lessens the privacy issue, but I think you still would have to apply for a warrant. So maybe they saw something in plain view that they knows contraband is illegal and that's enabling this. I don't know. They don't really tell us. That's where she was sleep at. Take exterior pictures real quick. Call whoever we want to call. She's an avenue user right now. It took about 2 seconds to see the decay of the teeth. I just took one step in there and you can already see torches and everything over by the couch. So, I'm sure y'all found a little bit of weed. I didn't know. Right. But you told us you you know that was your Well, see that's not my box. Yeah. Yeah. And there's several things in here that's not mine. That was my makeup. Of course it's not yours. You told me to be careful. But you know that's that's what cookies is. Yeah. The brand. It's a brand. Yeah, it's a weed brand. Yeah, it's a weed. Uh oh, I didn't know. A brand. I didn't know that a second. I didn't know. I thought Yeah. Yeah. I thought you were going to give us a warning. Yeah. No warning. Well, I just had a big one over here. Oh boy. Not looking good for her. All right, one more time. I'm sorry. What was the child's name? My name for what? Hey, we're not going down that road right now. I'm just worried about your baby. Okay. Mom's charges. Cruelty to children in a second. Cruelty in a second. A controlled substance. She's got pipes, scales, baggies. Seems like some paraphernalia type stuff, too. that was mixed in with the children's snacks. I'm also gonna give my two cents on the gentleman that she said be a good fit for her daughter to go with. Yeah, this is him. Um he said he's never had drug charges. His ex-wife did. Um he is under he just got out of a court case for simple battery. Yeah, we saw that already. I asked him I said, "Why why do you want to help her, man?" He said, "Well, she's cute, ain't she?" That was a woman sitting there. And I was like, "That's not what I need." Weird. Um we're going to deal with mom and baby and we'll call you if you need anything else. Okay. But she she going to be able to take place. Yeah. Everybody's going to be okay. I promise you. You got word. Everybody's going to be okay. Nobody's going to be incarcerated or anything. I didn't say that, but Oh, come on now, officer. Yeah. I I didn't have my word on that, but I told you everything's going to be okay. I you know, I mean, I'm a foster parent and our baby got out at a year and a half with a diaper on anyway because because of my soon to be Yeah. But you weren't living in a storage unit. No, not at all. But that was bad enough anyway getting out the back door though. Yeah. Oh my god. ain't got three houses now. I understand, but Oh my god. Yeah. No, the child will not be going with you. Thanks for the offer. Happened like that, right? Yeah. But it was Oh, you okay? Yeah. What you reaching for? Oh no. Wall guy's all over the place. You just start reaching like that. No, no, no, no, no. I was just talking. It's just how we're trained. Okay. All right. And uh Yeah, you're good to go. Go do your work. All right. Okay. All right. All right. All right. Ladies, man. All right. You got anything on you steps that poke me? Nothing at all? You got nothing hidden that we can't No, no, no, no. Don't start digging. All right. Nothing on your on you that we can't see. Nothing like that. Once we cross the guard lines, it'll be a felony. That's all I'm asking. Very sad. Got a feel for this woman. Put your hands together like you're praying. Okay. I don't like that. I don't like to relate something very positive to something very negative like being arrested. So I always just say hands behind your back, point your thumbs to the sky. That's just a preference. You're going to jail right now for cruelty to child in the second degree, reckless conduct, possession of drug related objects, possession less than announced, possession of Okay. Please don't let them lose that blanket. Please. She's very attached to that blanket. I've never been cruel to my children. I've never neglected my children. I just lost my child. I had kisses and never squeezes and then ws no more. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. Let's pray this is rock bottom for this woman. Clearly, she has a bad substance abuse problem. She needs help. There are lots of success stories of women like this who get clean and do in fact get their kids back. Let's hope that's what happens with her. We'll get back to her charges in just a moment, but first, the cops are called to a preschool when teachers discover a bunch of drugs in a kid's backpack. Hello. So, how how old is this kid? So, what do we have here? Oh my gosh. Oh, clear backpack. They sent these backpacks home for like a take home bag and they bring them back and they take them home on Tuesday, bring them back on Thursday. And yeah, there it is. Okay. That's a That's a good one. Um, so have you contacted the parents or No, no, don't contact the parents. Uh, we'll I have to call make a DCFS. What's your name? We'll contact We'll make contact with the parents. We'll talk to him. We're on back. Sheriff's office, search warrant. Sheriff's office, search warrant. Sheriff's office, search warrant. Sheriff's office. Search. Police. Police. Police. Police. Hands. Come here. Come here. Out. Kristen. Police. Police. Where's Kristen at? Okay. Are you Jason? Yeah. Okay. Hang on. We got two pages here. I'm officer. Jason looks bummed. We got a search warrant for the residence signed by a judge. You can feel free to look through. Okay. We going to find any methamphetamine, anything like that in the house? Meth pipes? No, I've been clean foring since September 17th. Okay. No pills, nothing like that. So, the reason why we're here is uh um Kristen's daughter showed up. We're here on a child endangerment investigation. Um, her daughter showed up to preschool with a bag of weed and THC dabs and then rolling papers and then she rode the bus with them and had them all around all those other kids. Oh my gosh. So, T, we're taking this pretty serious. Yeah. Yeah. Cuz there's 21 kids that were to in with child endangerment. So, technically there could be 21 counts of child endangerment for both of you guys. Yeah. Yeah. That's a lot. You shine your light on that test kit while I take a picture of this to where it shows that it's Yeah, you can see the blue there. So, the field test kits for drugs are great. It's going to help them identify what the drugs are. Still will have to go to an actual lab and get certified for charges. You guys both use that scale to weigh the weed out on. Put spice on it. Put spices on it. Spices. Spices. You guys never weigh method on it or anything like that? Okay. I was curious. Okay. And all the paraphernalia in here is all yours and stuff. All but you guys share that. All the all the cannabis and stuff in here. Yeah. Okay. The scale did test positive for methamphetamine. Front row. Yeah, it did. That's crazy. When did when did when's the last time you used them for dope? Back when I got in trouble. You've had those scales since then? Yeah, I've had them for a long time. All right. Well, they're in your room and they're they're with you got you said both of you use them, so we're both you're both getting charged with them. Okay. Just it is what it is. We're here because you guys just leave your [ __ ] out and they're a little bit reckless with it. Yeah. Oh, they found mama. Man, I would not do that. I see that sometimes on these videos. They let prisoners just walk freely with their hands handcuffed behind their back. They cannot stop themselves at all when they're falling. Seen it before. It's not pretty and it's not going to look great for the police department. If someone breaks their nose on the pavement because you weren't escorting them the right way. Just saying. I'll show you guys the picture. I ain't trying to hide anything from you. So, this is what we got sent to her school. This is what was in her little clear backpack. I mean, that's a problem. Yeah, that's mine. That's yours? That's mine. Okay. I didn't know I put it in there. The clear backpack. That's what really gets me. It's like, how did this happen? What? I didn't know I put it in there. It's not his. She put them in there. Yeah. I don't see I don't I did. We didn't have scales. We had bleed skills. I didn't know that. I' been in the door. I didn't know that. I thought the cops had taken them from you when you got in trouble. And and we haven't done math. I'm being straight up 100% honest. Hang on. My parents gave me an ultimatum and they told me, "Hang on, Kristen. Let me marize you and I'll let you speak. Okay? You can decide anytime to exercise these rights, not not answer any questions or make any statements. Do you understand these constitutional rights I've advised you?" Yes. Okay. All right. I'm going to ask you guys again. There have been any slip ups, relapses. No, we haven't mentioned something about three months ago. We did too in May. In May. That's That's May 17th when I caught my case, right? That's more than 3 months ago. Yeah. May 17th, I caught my case and I went to jail and I got out. Then see here around September. Yeah. I slid we slipped up. Yeah. And they told me I failed a drug test for my pre-trial. told me to go to rehab. I went to rehab and we've been clean ever since. Well, that's that's more than a few months. What about a few months ago? Did you guys around with something? Maybe party one night? No. What's the deal? No. Well, still I mean rehab though. You I went to I went to after him. I went in like the around the 1 of October. It's a problem cuz all the scales were and stuff like that were in reach of a child too. You know what I mean? We around. I'm swear to God on everything I love, man. I'm serious. I ain't trying to be a methhead no more. You know, I'm trying to change my life. Yeah. The only reason that's what I don't get. You hear this from people who go to rehabs and come out. I guarantee you the rehab is telling them stay clean. Do nothing. No recreational drugs at all. The weed is so strong now with dabs and the THC concentrates. I've seen people so high on weed they're borderline hallucinating. This stuff is powerful. So just getting blasted on weed is definitely not being sober. And you seen I couldn't even put my arm behind my back. Yeah. I work 9 10 hour days just to put food on the table, pay my bills. Yep. And we ain't here picking on you, but we got to we got to do that. Be straight up honest with you. But I'm about to have a nervous breakdown because I'm on so many meds, man. I'm on antiscychotics. I'm on anxiety. I'm on depression. I mean, I'm trying to get my straight. Yeah, we both have, man. We've been on this straight and narrow. Yeah. Any talk? No, we don't go nowhere. We don't do nothing. Like I said, man, I go to work, I come home, I go to the grocery store. I've been a mob. Yeah. Just because I smoke pot, you know, that doesn't make me a bad mob. I'm not saying you are. I know. I'm just saying. You know, you guys just made a mistake. I just made a mistake and put it in the wrong bag and forgot to take it out to be completely honest with you. Okay. Can you loosen these up, son, please? Yeah. Tell me about the magnetic box. I have I had it back in the day. Yeah. Yeah. That's what And the cops at Lawrence County gave it back to us when they arrested it. Well, why'd you keep it? I mean, why keep me paraphernalia? Cuz it it was just a It was just a box. And then you put And then you put it back underneath the bed to hide it. It's kind of That's kind of strange to me. Like maybe once in a while you guys are slipping up and No, I mean then why keep it? Actually, I forgot that was even under the bed. I mean to be completely honest because you can't really see it. That's [ __ ] But why put it back underneath the bed if you have not put meth in it since? Well, I mean if you think about sentimental memories the first time and you got arrested. That's when they had the box. That's when we did it. Yeah. They gave it back to us. You know, that was before you know we got cleaned up. Got our nose clean. Yeah. I I miss I miss some things, you know? I'm a blonde and I'm absent minded. I get I can't even stay concentrated on one damn thing. One of the blonde cards was doing two or three different things and I can't help it. I get it. The mother did receive three years probation and she also lost custody of the child. During a probation, she got a DUI in another state and went to jail. Unfortunately, the preschooler's parents were charged with drug possession and child endangerment, but there is no further information about their sentencing. Guys, as always, thank you for joining me on this video. If you've been enjoying them, please like, subscribe, and comment below. Hit that bell notification so you know when the next video has dropped. 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