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Couple overdoses on heroin at Family Dollar with infant in car
DAYTON - A 6-month-old infant has been placed in foster care by Montgomery County Children’s Services after witnesses at a Family Dollar store found two adults slumped over in a car from apparent heroin overdoses, police said.
Officers responded to 1 E. Helena about 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, after a woman noticed the couple passed out with an infant in the back seat, according to a police report.
Bryan Watkins, 25, was pacing around a 2001 Chevy Malibu when officers arrived and told them he thought something was wrong with his girlfriend, Jamie Banks, the report stated.
Watkins said Banks was blue and having trouble breathing, the report stated.
But witnesses said Watkins was in and out of consciousness as they removed Banks’ son from the backseat of the car, the report stated. The baby was placed in a witnesses car until police arrived, the report stated.
Watkins later said he got out of the car and disposed of syringes his girlfriend used to inject heroin into her system, the report stated.
Dayton Fire Department medics arrived and were able to stabilize Banks, who was transported to Grandview Medical Center where she told officers Watkins had also consumed two capsules of heroin, the report stated.
Watkins showed officers where he dumped the syringes and they were recovered in a dumpster near the Family Dollar, the report stated.
Banks was issued a summons to appear in court on a child endangering charge, the report stated. Watkins was booked into the Montgomery County Jail on felony charges of permitting drug abuse and tampering with evidence.
He also faces a misdemeanor child-endangering charge, according to jail records.
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