2 moms arrested on heroin charges with young kids in cars

YOUNGSTOWN

A Leetonia woman arrested Wednesday afternoon on the South Side with heroin and her 4-year-old child in the car is the second such arrest within a week.

Alicia Rogenski, 28, was arrested about 2:20 p.m. after she was spotted acting suspiciously in a Glenwood Avenue parking lot that is well known as a spot for drug users, police reports said.

She is in the Mahoning County jail on charges of possession of heroin and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Police said another woman from Columbiana County – Emilee Shaw, also 28, of East Palestine – was caught with heroin in a car Dec. 30 in a South Avenue parking lot and has been in the Mahoning County jail on $15,000 bond on charges of possession of heroin, possession of drug paraphernalia and child endangering because her two children, age 11 months and 6, were in the car with her.

Officers Nick Menichini and Mohammad Awad found Rogenski with something clutched in her hand and asked her to step out of the car. Her 4-year-old daughter was in the back seat, reports said. When Rogenski stepped out, she unclenched her hand, where a dose of heroin was found, and she was arrested.

She also had two needles, reports said.

The officers then searched the car and found additional drug paraphernalia.

At one point, the girl told Menichini, “That’s Mommy’s dope stuff.”

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