{"id":693802,"date":"2026-03-31T02:31:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T02:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/693802\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:31:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T02:31:18","slug":"houston-caregiver-accused-of-giving-4-year-old-thc-gummies-that-led-to-hospitalization-records-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/693802\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston caregiver accused of giving 4-year-old THC gummies that led to hospitalization, records show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>HOUSTON<\/strong> \u2013 Houston police arrested a 42-year-old woman who allegedly gave a 4-year-old child THC gummies, according to court records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Denia Ramos-Velasquez, 42, is charged with endangering a child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Police told KPRC 2 News they were called to the 5900 block of Glenmont Drive last week to meet firefighters after a mother found her son unable to stand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">According to investigators, the mother said she regularly drops off her 4-year-old son at a neighbor\u2019s apartment while she goes to work. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">When she picked him up that day, he had fallen, appeared sick, was unable to stay conscious, and could not stand on his own.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Court records show the child was hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Ramos-Velasquez told police the child consumed more than one gummy inside her apartment but claimed she \u201cdidn\u2019t know\u201d they contained THC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Police contacted Child Protective Services and the Harris County District Attorney\u2019s Office, which accepted a charge of endangering a child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The arrest comes just before Texas is set to implement new regulations on smokable hemp products.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2013 Houston police arrested a 42-year-old woman who allegedly gave a 4-year-old child THC gummies, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":693803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[73335,4219,1230,290484,87567,4345,3344,50,358,11102,290483,3187],"class_list":["post-693802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-child-endangerment","tag-crime","tag-drugs","tag-edibles","tag-gummies","tag-houston","tag-marijuana","tag-news","tag-texas","tag-thc","tag-thc-gummies","tag-tx"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116321444692456620","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}