Mother faces charges after 2-year-old uses ‘marijuana dab pen,’ police say
Dec 17, 2024, 5:13 PM | Updated: Dec 18, 2024, 10:22 am
(FILE) - A West Jordan Police Department patrol car. (KSL TV)
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WEST JORDAN — A mother was charged in 3rd District Court Thursday after police said her 2-year-old daughter used an electronic marijuana device, according to an affidavit.
Court documents said on November 15, the West Jordan Police Department received a call of a child choking at a hospital in Salt Lake County.
Officer J. Wright said the mother Tierra La’Shon Ray, 26, had been in her bedroom when she heard the “dab pen” was activated. She then heard her 2-year-old daughter coughing, seemingly unable to catch her breath, according to the affidavit.
Ray told her brother to call 911, the document said. Shortly after, Ray’s neighbors arrived and offered to give them a ride to the hospital.
Police conducted a field test on the dab pen which came back positive for marijuana, the document stated.
Ray faces a third-degree felony charge for endangerment of a child.
