Mom arrested after toddler suffers meth overdose in Vancouver apartment

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A mother is in jail after her 3-year-old child suffered a meth overdose in the family’s apartment late Thursday night, according to Vancouver police.

Authorities received a report that a grandmother had given two doses of Narcan to the child to “get the child breathing again” around 8 p.m.

“When officers arrived, the mother was with the child in a bedroom and was refusing to let the medical responders in,” officials said. “In order to provide immediate treatment for the child, police forced their way into the room and were able to get the child into the hands of the medical responders.”

While searching the mom, Summer Justice Ward, police found a plastic bag filled with a white substance that tested positive for meth.

Ward, 27, faces charges of for endangerment with a controlled substance, second-degree criminal mistreatment, resisting arrest, obstruction of law enforcement, and possession of a controlled substance.

The 3-year-old child and Ward’s other child, 2, were both taken into protective custody.