Teh One Who Knocks
06-15-2012, 04:17 PM
BY VALERIE SCHREMP HAHN • St Louis Post-Dispatch
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MOSCOW MILLS • An O'Fallon, Mo., woman faces drug charges after investigators said she sold heroin to her father, who overdosed and had to be treated at a hospital.
Jodi L. England, 26, of the 200 block of Tyndale Drive, was charged in Lincoln County Circuit Court with delivery of a controlled substance and marijuana possession.
The incident happened Friday at her father's home in the 100 block of Briarwood Drive in Moscow Mills. According to court documents, a Lincoln County Sheriff's Department detective went to the Lincoln County Medical Center to speak with Steve England, who was being treated in the emergency room. England told the detective he had used heroin that day and about three times that week. He told police his daughter had sold him the heroin for $10.
"He said he knew his daughter was a heroin addict and he wanted to do heroin too," said Major Kurt Venneman.
The detective spoke with Jodi England, who allowed him to search her vehicle, according to court documents. In the trunk he found a book bag, which included several syringes, a spoon, and several capsules that included trace amounts of heroin.
England admitted she provided her father with the heroin after he asked her on several occasions for it, and that she injected him with it, which caused his overdose, police say. England, who is in his early 50s, has since recovered.
Venneman says the sale between family members didn't surprise him.
"It's pretty common, to be honest with you. Heroin is just that drug that controls people so much, they'll do anything to family, friends, people they don't know. It's a brutal drug."
Jodi England was being held in the Lincoln County Jail on $20,000 cash-only bail.
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MOSCOW MILLS • An O'Fallon, Mo., woman faces drug charges after investigators said she sold heroin to her father, who overdosed and had to be treated at a hospital.
Jodi L. England, 26, of the 200 block of Tyndale Drive, was charged in Lincoln County Circuit Court with delivery of a controlled substance and marijuana possession.
The incident happened Friday at her father's home in the 100 block of Briarwood Drive in Moscow Mills. According to court documents, a Lincoln County Sheriff's Department detective went to the Lincoln County Medical Center to speak with Steve England, who was being treated in the emergency room. England told the detective he had used heroin that day and about three times that week. He told police his daughter had sold him the heroin for $10.
"He said he knew his daughter was a heroin addict and he wanted to do heroin too," said Major Kurt Venneman.
The detective spoke with Jodi England, who allowed him to search her vehicle, according to court documents. In the trunk he found a book bag, which included several syringes, a spoon, and several capsules that included trace amounts of heroin.
England admitted she provided her father with the heroin after he asked her on several occasions for it, and that she injected him with it, which caused his overdose, police say. England, who is in his early 50s, has since recovered.
Venneman says the sale between family members didn't surprise him.
"It's pretty common, to be honest with you. Heroin is just that drug that controls people so much, they'll do anything to family, friends, people they don't know. It's a brutal drug."
Jodi England was being held in the Lincoln County Jail on $20,000 cash-only bail.