Hearings scheduled for parents charged with child endangerment, drug possession
Preliminary hearings have been scheduled for two local parents charged with child endangerment and drug charges after police found them to be in possession of marijuana while their four-year-old son was with them in their vehicle.
William J. Jaggie, 28, and Labrea L. Kisner, 22, both of Brave, were each charged with endangering the welfare of children, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of marijuana and criminal conspiracy to commit possession with the intent to deliver drugs.
The charges were filed in the office of Magisterial District Judge Lee Watson on Oct. 17. Preliminary hearings for both suspects have been scheduled to be held before Watson on Dec. 5.
According to the criminal complaints filed in Watson’s office, a detective from the Greene County Regional Police Department had previously conducted a narcotics investigation that culminated in a search warrant being issued for a residence on Orchard Avenue in Brave.
Police received information indicating that a narcotics transaction was going to occur at the residence between 10 p.m. and 12 a.m. Sept. 28 and the drugs were going to be in a silver sports utility vehicle operated by Jaggie, the complaints state.
The detective conducted surveillance on the residence when it was observed that the vehicle did not go to Orchard Avenue but instead stopped at a residence on Toms Run Road; the signal was given and officers stopped the vehicle in the driveway, where police found Kisner in the front passenger seat and Jaggie driving, the complaints state.
Police then discovered a juvenile child in the back seat, and after Jaggie and Kisner were removed from the vehicle several individual packages of suspected marijuana that was packaged for sale was recovered from under the rear seat, the complaints state.
Police also found a digital scale and a glass crack smoking pipe on the floor of the rear seating area and a sandwich baggie of suspected marijuana on the floor, and discovered that a bag had been torn open and poured on the floor, spilling loose marijuana, the complaints state.
Police said the four-year-old boy was in a booster seat behind the driver’s seat, and reported that the child “was placed in danger” by the suspects by being brought along for a pre-planned narcotics transaction, the complaints state.
After the warrant was served, police found numerous pieces of narcotics paraphernalia and two bags of a small amount of suspected marijuana were found in the residence shared by the suspects; police also reported that the residence was “in a state of filth unfit for habitation,” the complaints state.
According to the Greene County Regional Police’s Facebook page, officers worked in conjunction with deputies from the Greene County Sheriff’s Office in the arrest.
According to the Facebook page and court records, two other adults were in the vehicle at the time of the arrest. Christopher M. Allen, 39, and Tristan Allen, 18, both of Waynesburg, were each charged with possession with the intent to deliver drugs, possession of drug paraphernalia, criminal conspiracy to commit possession of drug paraphernalia and reckless endangerment.
Police also reported on Facebook that “a variety of knives and other weapons” were found during the search of the residence. They also reported that the child was released into the custody of his grandfather, and Greene County Children and Youth Services was contacted to monitor this situation to ensure the safety of the child.