In-home daycare loses license after cocaine purchase
By Ryan Jeltema
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FLINT, Michigan (WJRT) — Plans to open an in-home daycare on Flint’s south side are off after police say they purchased cocaine from two women at the residence.
Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson said members of the GHOST team completed a controlled purchase of drugs from the residence in the 1900 block of Eckley Avenue a short distance west of Center Road.
They found 3 ounce of cocaine and two handguns in the house after completing the controlled purchase, Swanson said. A 38-year-old woman and a 34-year-old woman were arrested on drug and weapons charges.
The women obtained a state license last year from the Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement and Potential to open a daycare in the home.
Swanson said no children were attending the daycare and state regulators revoked the license after the women’s arrests.
“They were going to have an active daycare,” he said. “They were going to have a daycare where kids were going and people were absolutely going to buy and sell dope out of that house. So we stopped it.”
Swanson credited the GHOST team for taking down the drug trafficking operation before any children were endangered by narcotics activity at the daycare.
“No kids were at risk because GHOST was proactive in doing it,” he said.
ABC12 is not identifying the women Monday because they have not appeared in Genesee County District Court for arraignment.
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