An Oregon mother with ties to Southeast Idaho who had been wanted by police for failing to appear at her trial for allegedly giving her 2-year-old son cocaine was arrested in Texas on Sunday.
Kalin Swartz, 29, of Jefferson, Oregon, was taken into custody on an outstanding warrant by Midland County Sheriff’s Office deputies just outside of Midland, Texas.
Swartz had been wanted since Dec. 12 when an Oregon judge learned she had violated conditions of her release from jail by allegedly leaving the state to go to the home of a man she knew in Jonesboro, Indiana.
She reportedly purchased gas
using a credit card she stole from an Oregon logging company. She also
allegedly attempted to crash the Indiana man’s truck while driving with him as a passenger in an attempt to kill him, according to media reports.
Prior to her capture Sunday, the local Crime Stoppers organization, which alerts the public about unsolved crimes and wanted fugitives, had
posted via social media that Swartz has family ties to Blackfoot and could have fled to Idaho.
Swartz had a court hearing set for Jan. 4, regarding charges of third-degree assault and causing another person to ingest a controlled substance, which stemmed from a grand jury indictment that said she allegedly gave her toddler son cocaine.
Swartz was scheduled to go on trial for the incident this month prior to her two-month-plus crime spree as a fugitive.
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A week before a warrant was issued for Swartz’s arrest, an Indiana woman ... in Oregon to report that Swartz was living in Indiana with a man the woman knew and was “wreaking havoc” on their lives ...
The woman said Swartz’s behavior since arriving to the man’s home had become increasingly “erratic and alarming.” She told investigators Swartz claimed to have put melatonin, which is a hormone that regulates the sleep cycle, in her child’s drinks and bragged about stealing a credit card from an Oregon logging company, the Statesman Journal reported.
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An Oregon mother with ties to Southeast Idaho who had been wanted by police for failing to appear at her trial for allegedly giving her 2-year-old son cocaine was arrested
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