A 28-year-old Owensboro woman is facing child endangerment and drug charges after fentanyl pills were located within reach of an infant in the home, according to the Daviess County Sheriff’s Office.
According to a release, detectives with the DCSO Special Investigations Unit, Kentucky State Police Drug Enforcement/Special Investigations, and U.S. Homeland Security Investigations served a search warrant on Thursday at a home in the 2500 block of West 10th Street in Owensboro as part of a fentanyl trafficking investigation.
In the months prior to the search warrant operation, detectives made multiple undercover controlled purchases of fentanyl from Tiana Garrard, a resident of the home, according to DCSO.
“During the search warrant detectives located a large quantity of fentanyl pills, tooter straws with drug residue, digital scales, Oxycodone pills, marijuana, and U.S. currency. All evidence was seized and logged into evidence at DCSO. Some of the evidence including fentanyl pills was found within reach of an infant child that lived in the home,” the release says.
The Department of Community Based Services responded to assist detectives.
Following the search warrant operation, Garrard was taken to DCDC and booked on the following charges, per DCSO:
- Aggravated trafficking in a controlled substance (> or = to 28 Grams of fentanyl)
- Wanton endangerment, 1st degree
- Trafficking in a controlled substance, 1st offense (fentanyl)
- Trafficking in a controlled substance, 1st offense (fentanyl)
- Possession of controlled substance, 1st degree – 1st offense
- Possession of marijuana
- Drug paraphernalia buy/possess