Five kids removed after 2 drug arrests

State social workers took five children into custody after the mother of three of the children was arrested Friday afternoon and charged with several drug crimes.

Pulaski County sheriff’s office deputies went to 2201 Russenberger Road on an anonymous tip that people at the address were smoking methamphetamine in the presence of children, according to deputies’ reports.

Deputies reached the address about 1:30 p.m. and once allowed inside by the homeowner, Summer Wilkerson, noticed there were five children, the oldest of whom was 3 years old, inside the home.

According to deputies, Wilkerson kept a propane bottle and torch attachment next to her bed.

Noting the items in her bedroom, deputies asked her if she or anyone in the house was using any drug, and Wilkerson “suspiciously walked” over to her dresser and sat on top of it, denying any such activity.

One of the deputies spotted a bag of meth on the dresser and later found a variety of drug pipes, reports said.

Wilkerson was arrested and charged with five counts of endangering the welfare of a minor, possession of methamphetamine and felony possession of drug paraphernalia.

During the investigation, the father of the two children who were not Wilkerson’s, Jonathan Baker, came to pick up his children, only to submit to and fail a drug test.

Social workers then took custody of his two children.