Pot-smokers booked on drug charges after being arrested
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HOLDEN — Livingston Parish sheriff’s deputies arrested two adults found smoking marijuana in a car while leaving 10 children to sit unsupervised around a campfire underneath Interstate 12 near Holden, the Sheriff’s Office reported Saturday.
The adults were sitting in a smoke-filled car about 10 a.m. Thursday near the campfire and the children, who range from 9 to 14 years of age, sheriff’s spokesman Perry Rushing said in a news release.
When the deputy approached the car and asked the pair what they were doing, they replied “smoking pot,” the news release said.
Upon searching the car, the deputy discovered a plastic bag containing marijuana, several partially burned joints and some rolling papers, Rushing said. The deputy also found Lortab pills that one of the adults in the car, Mark Dwayne Hoyt, 27, said he had been crushing and snorting.
Another deputy arrived and arrested Hoyt, 27350 Brandy Drive, No. 47, Holden, and his companion, Tonya Nienstedt Garrett, 31, 19586 Greenwell Springs Road, Greenwell Springs.
Hoyt was booked into Livingston Parish Jail on 10 counts of contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile, one count each of second-offense possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a schedule III drug and resisting arrest, Rushing said. His bond was set at $301,000.
Garrett was booked into Livingston parish Jail on 10 counts of contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile and one count each of possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, Rushing said. Her bond was set at $251,000.
As there were no sober adults at the campsite, the 10 children were placed in Office of Community Services custody, Rushing said.
Four of the children were Garrett’s, Rushing said. The others were cousins or friends.
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