A Prague couple facing child neglect and drug charges after they had brought their child into the hospital and reportedly were intoxicated have entered pleas of not guilty.
Charged with felony child neglect are Devon C. Rodriguez, 32 and Camille Breean Akins, 30. Formal charges were filed in Lincoln County District Court on Jan. 18, 2024.
On May 2, the two waived their preliminary hearings.
Appearing recently beforeDistrictJudgeJohn for their arraignments, each pleaded not guilty. The judge received their pleas and set them for the felony disposition docket on Sep. 30.
Each is also charged withunlawfulpossession of drug paraphernalia, a misdemeanor, andAkins also faces one count of possessionofaControlled Dangerous Substance, a misdemeanor.
Each appeared before Associate District Judge Sheila Kirk on Jan. 12, made their initial appearance Jan. 22.
In a probable cause affidavit, Prague Police Officer Andrew James states he responded to the Prague Community Hospital a little after 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 11 in reference to children being removed from parental custody by the Oklahoma Department of Human Services.
Dispatchwasinformed that a DHS caseworker was at the hospital with three children and that both parents appeared to be under the influence of narcotics.
Prague Lt. Jeff Frisbie, in the same affidavit, reported he was dispatched to the hospital at 7:40 p.m., a couple of minutes after Officer James was, and received the same information about the parents and DHS trying to remove the children from the parents’ custody.
The DHS did remove the three children from the parents’ custody.
JamesaskedRodriguez if he had any drugs or weapons with him and Rodriguez told the officer he had a torch and some foils. The officer further inquired of Rodriguez what he was smoking on the foil and Rodriguez informed him it was Fentanyl.
James later placed Rodriguez into the back seat of his patrol unit after handcuffing him and advising him he was being detained. Later, he transported Rodriguez to the Prague Police Department where he was booked into jail.
James advised Rodriguez he was arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia and child endangerment.
While James was dealing with Rodriguez, Lt. Frisbie and a DHS worker went outside to where Akins had gotten intoaHondaAccord.She reportedly was resting her head on the steering wheel. Frisbie said she didn’t respond to his knocking on the window soheopenedthedoorand she woke up.
The lieutenant asked her to step out of the vehicle because he could see a square foil with a brown residue on it sitting on her right leg. He also spotted an open, white zippered, small bag beside her right leg. In it was a syringe and several pieces of tin foil.
Frisbie said as she steppedoutsheattempted to hide the foil. He placed her in handcuffs to detain her, he stated, then seized the white bag as it had drugs and paraphernalia. He found a clear baggy of a brown powdery substance and several tubular plastic pipes with the brown residue on them.
Later,aftertransporting her to the Prague Police Department, he found 17 small blue round pills that field tested positive for Oxycodone and Fentanyl.