Woman passed out in Pikeville Walmart parking lot with 3-year-old in lap

Reports of a woman allegedly passed out in a vehicle at the Pikeville Walmart parking lot on Cassidy Boulevard Thursday evening led police to a potential overdose victim and felony charges for another woman.

According to court documents, Pikeville Police Officer Josh Tackett was dispatched to the area and located the woman. Tackett wrote that he located the woman passed out in her car, with a three-year-old child in her lap while the window of the vehicle was down, the citation said. The child was “shivering with no pants on” when the officer arrived, the citation said.

The woman was taken to Pikeville Medical Center for treatment for a possible overdose and was found to be in possession of methamphetamine, the citation said. While with officers, the child told police that her six-year-old sister had been in Walmart with another woman when officers came earlier, the citation said.

Pikeville Police Officer Chad Branham and Tackett located the six-year-old child in the care of Tiffany D. Lewis, 31, of Cliffside Circle, Prestonsburg, inside of the store almost two hours after initial contact with the mother in the parking lot, the citation said. Lewis showed signs of intoxication and told officers that she had taken Suboxone previously, the citation said.

Upon interview, Lewis told officers that she had driven herself, the two children and the two children’s mother to Walmart Thursday, the citation said. Lewis said that, when she and the six-year-old got out of the car to go into the store, “she knew (the mother) wasn’t going to make it but left the three-year-old with her anyway,” the citation said.

Branham wrote in his citation that, despite Lewis being inside of the store with the child for more two hours, she passed out in his police cruiser in less than two minutes of transport. When at the jail, Lewis denied that she had anything illegal in her possession, but, during the booking process, deputy jailers located multiple items in her possession, the citation said.

Jailers located a Suboxone packet with a Suboxone strip inside, which led to a strip search where jailers then located a pill bottle and a package in Lewis’ undergarments, the citation said. The pill bottle contained multiple types of prescription medication and the package held a tablet-and-a-half of another type of prescription medication, the citation said.

In the two incidents, Lewis was arrested on charges of first-degree promoting contraband, first-offense first-degree possession of a controlled substance, public intoxication, two counts of second-degree wanton endangerment, first-offense having a prescription controlled substance not in the proper container, second-degree possession of a controlled substance and third-degree possession of a controlled substance, court records show.

The two children involved were taken into protective custody and made contact with Social Services at the Pikeville Police Department, court documents said.

Lewis appeared at arraignment on her charges Friday to enter a plea of not guilty to all charges, court records show. Pike District Judge Darrel Mullins ordered Lewis held in custody of the Pike County Detention Center on a $10,000 full cash bond, court records show.

Lewis, according to jail records, remained in custody as of presstime Friday.

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