A woman from Marion County was arrested after meth was discovered in her diaper bag. She is said to have admitted to using meth around a 1-year-old child that day.
A criminal charge says that on October 23, troopers from the West Virginia State Police detachment in Marion County helped Child Protective Services workers do a home check at a house on Underwood Street in Baxter.
Alyssa Maze, 36, of Baxter, and “multiple adults” were at the house “using and selling meth” while there were “small children inside,” according to a complaint that was not named.
When the police arrived, CPS workers were knocking on the door of the house. The police saw Maze “exit a camper on the property and come to the rear fence,” where she talked to the police and let them into the house, according to the complaint.
The lawsuit says that Maze told the police that “she would test positive for marijuana and methamphetamine” after they saw a 1-year-old baby in the house.
The lawsuit says that a search of the camper on the property “found several items of drug paraphernalia and two containers of methamphetamine in a diaper bag.”
Maze told the police that the meth was hers and that she had been using it before the police and CPS arrived in the camper. She also said that she “uses meth regularly twice a month on average” and that she “was using meth while [the] 1-year-old [infant] was inside the residence,” the police said.
Maze has been charged with child abuse that puts a child at risk of getting hurt. No changes were made to the original sentence.
It says in the complaint that someone else who was on the land was arrested on a warrant.
