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Police take 17 children after drug busts
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SALEM (AP) - Salem police busted a woman on a meth sales charge this week, then put her straight to work setting up dealers, and wound up taking 17 children out of four separate households.
Patricia Feeny, a spokeswoman for Department of Human Services, said she could not recall so many children taken into protective custody in one day.
They ranged in age from a month old to 17.
Salem police said they arrested Tina Walker, 35, Wednesday and took her four children, ages 7 to 16. Then, said Lt. Dave Okada, she called her suppliers.
A 15-year-old boy, sent by his mother, delivered one order, police said. He said he had delivered methamphetamine for his mother at least four other times and that he used meth with her at least five times in the past month.
His mother was among 11 other people arrested on Thursday.
, one on mistreatment charges and the rest on drug charges.
“When we search any possible drug house that has children, we want to get to the children as quickly as possible,” Okada said.
Feeny said state welfare workers would try to keep siblings together and to place them within their own neighborhoods.
Patricia Feeny, a spokeswoman for Department of Human Services, said she could not recall so many children taken into protective custody in one day.
They ranged in age from a month old to 17.
Salem police said they arrested Tina Walker, 35, Wednesday and took her four children, ages 7 to 16. Then, said Lt. Dave Okada, she called her suppliers.
A 15-year-old boy, sent by his mother, delivered one order, police said. He said he had delivered methamphetamine for his mother at least four other times and that he used meth with her at least five times in the past month.
His mother was among 11 other people arrested on Thursday.
, one on mistreatment charges and the rest on drug charges.
“When we search any possible drug house that has children, we want to get to the children as quickly as possible,” Okada said.
Feeny said state welfare workers would try to keep siblings together and to place them within their own neighborhoods.
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