November 29, 2017
By Paragon News Director Paul Joseph –
Police have recently issued an arrest warrant for an Elk City Man while his girlfriend pleaded guilty Monday to similar charges of drug possession and child neglect.
Through an investigation, police believe a child’s injury occurred during the boyfriend’s watch during the early morning hours of a June day.
27-year-old Enrique “Ricky”Miguel Duarte is wanted on a $50-thousand dollar bond for an incident with a 3-year-old juvenile girl that happened in June, but was only charged this month. A warrant for his arrest was issued two weeks ago on November 15.
The mother, charged in June with two counts of possession of a controlled, dangerous substance in the presence of a minor, child neglect and possession of drug paraphernalia, pleaded guilty to the charges on Monday and was sentenced.
25-year-old Satara Nichole Williams received a 5-year deferred sentence on the charges, fined and ordered to attend parenting classes.
According to a probable cause affidavit, Williams and another family member had taken Williams’ 3-year-old daughter to a local hospital’s emergency room for severe second degree burns with a number of blisters on her right foot and ankle. Police soon responded to the call and, according to the report, neither Williams or the other family member told police how the injury was sustained.
Through a continued investigation, police learned that the burns occurred on the early morning hours of June 2, sometime between 4 am and 7 am while Williams was asleep and the child was in the care of Williams’ boy friend, Duarte.
Though it’s still not known how the child received the burns, police believe Duarte is responsible.
About three hours after the child was taken to the hospital, a DHS case worker and an officer inspected Williams’ home in the 1700 block of West 10th Street in Elk City.
The affidavit says that both were overwhelmed by the odor of burnt marijuana when they walked inside. They soon allegedly found on the living room floor what appeared to be a broken, dark blue colored glass smoking pipe with a large amount of white residue inside the tube. The reside field tested positive for the presence of Methamphetamine.
A search warrant was later executed on the home and the search allegedly turned up several items of evidence including, marijuana, meth, additional drug paraphernalia and hundreds of clear plastic baggies found throughout the house, some baggies contained white reside and most were torn open and some cut in a triangular shape.
Police also allegedly located an additional glass, meth smoking pipe inside a children’s backpack found hanging on a doorknob. Next to the pipe, police found a long blue and silver razor knife.
During an interview, Williams told police Duarte would hang out in the couple’s bedroom with his friends, allegedly doing drugs while she would sleep in the living room.
Police continue their search for Duarte who’s been charged with two counts of possession of a controlled, dangerous substance and child neglect.
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