McKees Rocks woman arrested in infant grandson’s overdose
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Police have arrested a McKees Rocks woman in connection with the July 31 overdose of her infant grandson.
Robbie Elizabeth Boyer, 47, was taken into custody Thursday on two arrest warrants by police from Allegheny County and McKees Rocks. They say she is responsible for the 10-month-old boy’s overdose.
First responders found the infant unresponsive in a home in the 400 block of Fair Oaks Street. Paramedics administered overdose-reversing naloxone and took him in critical condition to Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.
Boyer is charged with aggravated assault, endangering the welfare of a child, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Police obtained an additional warrant for her arrest when they said two other children in her care tested positive for illicit drugs. Police said a 9-year old girl tested positive for cocaine metabolites and a 3-year-old boy tested positive for cocaine and fentanyl.
Boyer took off when police arrived on July 31, according to a criminal complaint against her.
Investigators said they found Boyer’s Buick Le Sabre not far from the home with two glass drug pipes in a cigarette box on the seat, according to the complaint.
A search warrant carried out on the home turned up another glass pipe inside a Newport cigarette box, investigators wrote.
They also found several bundles of stamp bags of suspected heroin in a brown bag, along with syringes in a different bag in the living room.
Witnesses, including the child’s parents, told investigators the boy had been in Boyer’s care.
Boyer was placed in the Allegheny County Jail in Pittsburgh and was awaiting arraignment.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the Allegheny County Police tip line at 1-833-255-8477. Callers can remain anonymous.