UPDATE | Police suspect Warren tots ate opiate drug

WARREN

Capt. Robert Massucci called it a “sad state of affairs” that children ages 9 and 21 months had to be revived with Naloxone, the opiate-reverseal drug at ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital Tuesday after they apparently ate an opiate drug.

Police expect to file numerous charges and consider their mother to be the main suspect in the case. Charges are likely by the end of the week or early next week, said Nick Carney, a Warren detective.

“The children were in a position that they shouldn’t have been,” Carney said.

When they first arrived at the hospital, the medical staff asked the mother to tell them if she knew what might might be wrong with the children, but the mother was highly upset and didn’t provide any information.

After reviewing different options for what was wrong, a doctor administered Naloxone to the older child, and she responded to it started to behave more normally, Massucci said.

Carney said he expects to have information from a drug screen later today to determine whether opiates such as heroin were the reason for the sluggishness, he said.

The children were taken to Akron Children’s Hospital after being given Naloxone, and they both received another dose at Akron Children’s. Both children are doing well and are expected to remain at Akron Children’s for another day.

The children and their mother arrived at the hospital at 11:45 a.m.