Crime & Safety

Cops: Mom Found With Crack After Failing to Pick Up Son From School

Middletown Police say a 43-year-old Pearl Street woman under the influence of drugs insisted her 8-year-old was sleeping in his bedroom.

 

A Pearl Street woman is facing narcotics possession and risk of injury charges after police say she failed to pick her 8-year-old son up from school — and was found alone at home with crack cocaine, money, trash and clothing scattered about.

On Jan. 18 at 5 p.m., Middletown Police were called to on an 8-year-old child who hadn’t been picked up from school. The principal said the mother, Bonnie J. Provost, 43, of Pearl Street, had been late before but “never this late,” police say. When the school called the home, the report says, it sounded like someone picked up the phone but couldn’t talk.

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At the apartment, police had to knock for five minutes before Provost answered, looking, the report says, like she was on drugs, slurring her words, having trouble standing up and appearing to have a white substance in the corners of her mouth. Police say Provost told them her son was asleep in his bedroom but no one was there. She insisted he was, police say.

The apartment had clothes and trash, scattered pills and money covering the floor, police say. In the living room, being used as a bedroom, police say they saw a white substance, later determined to be 1 gram of crack, and a crack pipe with residue inside. Provost insisted to police she had picked up her son, the report says.

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At headquarters, the report says, Provost was babbling incoherently, and fell asleep several times. When interviewed by the Department of Child and Families staff, police say she admitted to "slipping up" by taking a muscle relaxant — and the crack and pipe was her friend’s. DCF took the child, the report says.

Police say Provost has prior arrests for criminal impersonation, first-degree failure to appear, third-degree burglary, possession of narcotics, fourth- and second-degree larceny.

Provost was charged with possession of narcotics, risk of injury to a child and use of drug paraphernalia. 


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