ALLEN COUNTY, IN – A 45-year-old woman in Indiana is avoiding prison time after securing a plea deal which dropped several charges, including two counts of neglect and confinement. She is alleged to have locked her son in a closet with a Pringles can to be used as a toilet.
On December 29th, 45-year-old Angie Harlan was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in the Allen County Community Corrections Residential Services (CCRS) after pleading guilty to felony intimidation and misdemeanor false informing after she hid her son at her home after he ran away from his foster family in August.
According to authorities, Harlan’s child was living with a foster family when he reportedly ran away on August 17th. He was able to call his mother from a stranger's home.
Harlan reportedly picked the child up from the home he called from, bringing him back to her residence and instructing him to hide in the closet and allegedly giving him a Pringles can to use as a toilet.
When authorities initially interviewed Harlan following a missing persons report being made by her son’s foster family, she denied having seen him or being privy to his whereabouts. After the Department of Child Services (DCS) received a tip that the child was at Harlan’s home, a second visit was launched where the child was discovered hiding under the bed of a second-story bedroom at the residence.
When DCS agents interviewed the child, he detailed the closet situation while also alleging that his mother gave him an unfamiliar pill that she claimed was Tylenol, but he was certain wasn’t. After taking the unfamiliar pill, the child claimed to have felt drunk and “passed out.” A search of Harlan’s home resulted in two sedative prescriptions being discovered by police, pregabalin and hydroxyz HCL.
As part of Harlan’s plea deal, prosecutors dropped the two counts of neglect, the single count of confinement, and one of the false informing charges. Instead of traditional incarceration, Harlan was afforded a stay at the CCRS program, which is described by the Allen County Corrections website as a program similar to how halfway houses operate, wherein residents can obtain local work and move about the community “which may include GPS supervision.”
On December 29th, 45-year-old Angie Harlan was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in the Allen County Community Corrections Residential Services (CCRS) after pleading guilty to felony intimidation and misdemeanor false informing after she hid her son at her home after he ran away from his foster family in August.
According to authorities, Harlan’s child was living with a foster family when he reportedly ran away on August 17th. He was able to call his mother from a stranger's home.
Harlan reportedly picked the child up from the home he called from, bringing him back to her residence and instructing him to hide in the closet and allegedly giving him a Pringles can to use as a toilet.
When authorities initially interviewed Harlan following a missing persons report being made by her son’s foster family, she denied having seen him or being privy to his whereabouts. After the Department of Child Services (DCS) received a tip that the child was at Harlan’s home, a second visit was launched where the child was discovered hiding under the bed of a second-story bedroom at the residence.
When DCS agents interviewed the child, he detailed the closet situation while also alleging that his mother gave him an unfamiliar pill that she claimed was Tylenol, but he was certain wasn’t. After taking the unfamiliar pill, the child claimed to have felt drunk and “passed out.” A search of Harlan’s home resulted in two sedative prescriptions being discovered by police, pregabalin and hydroxyz HCL.
As part of Harlan’s plea deal, prosecutors dropped the two counts of neglect, the single count of confinement, and one of the false informing charges. Instead of traditional incarceration, Harlan was afforded a stay at the CCRS program, which is described by the Allen County Corrections website as a program similar to how halfway houses operate, wherein residents can obtain local work and move about the community “which may include GPS supervision.”
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