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TOOELE, Utah - Utah police arrested three relatives after a 3-year-old tested positive at the hospital for methamphetamine, according to KSTU.
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The child's mother, 30-year-old Lucinda Black, along with 23-year-old Danie Black and 27-year-old Ashley Black, were all booked into the Tooele County Detention center after allegedly exposing the toddler to the drug.
Officers were contacted Dec. 30 by a Mountain West Medical Center ER employee in Tooele City reporting that a child had just arrived with meth in her system, according to a probable cause statement.
The child's legal guardian, her grandmother, told police that the girl had begun to act strangely. When the grandmother asked her daughter and son, the girl's aunt and uncle, what was wrong, they stated that the child started acting "weird," after she drank from a water bottle with soda in it.
Black, Ashley
Based on the information given at the hospital, detectives were called. Danie Black, the uncle of the victim, was detained at the scene of the incident after police say he admitted to recently using meth.
"After reading Danie his Miranda rights and him agreeing to talking to me, he stated that his sisters, Lucinda and Ashley Black, gave him meth and that the bottle belonged to Lucinda or Ashley and that Lucinda and Ashley would always mix him drinks with meth in them," police said.
Based on Danie's statement, police determined that the child may have consumed meth from the water bottle. Ashley and Lucinda Black were called to the station to speak with police.
"After talking to all three subjects, they all tried to deceive me and blame it on each other," Detective Lydon Allred, with the Grantsville City Police Department, said. He also stated:
Black, Danie
Police stated that Lucinda Black was also arrested for felony child endangerment and abuse. It was unclear in the probable cause statement whether or not Ashley Black was also facing charges.