Farmwife arrested after 2-year-old tests positive for cocaine, police say

FLORIDA CITY, Florida. – Florida City police arrested a woman Monday morning after they say a 2-year-old boy tested positive for cocaine after being brought to the hospital the previous evening.

Stephanie Ann Johnson, 30, of Homestead, faces charges of child neglect and possession of cocaine.

Police say Johnson told a detective she picked the boy up earlier Sunday at her brother's home in Homestead and, after stopping at Wendy's, took him to a man's house in Florida City where she helped clean up.

The arrest report does not explicitly state whether Johnson is the child's mother.

While Johnson was cleaning the bathroom, police said the man brought the boy into the bathroom and told him the 2-year-old had sprayed bleach in his face and in the eyes.

An arrest report says the woman began putting water on the child's face and after 15 to 20 minutes, she asked the man to drive her and the boy to a Homestead health clinic, which was closed, and then to an urgent care clinic.

Police said the boy was then taken to Homestead Hospital.

A nurse at that facility told police the boy “had bumps on his nose, redness around his face” and “couldn't open his eyes” because of the bleach, the report states. The child was also “shaking from the cocaine,” police said, and was flown to Nicklaus Children's Hospital for further treatment.

The boy had tested positive for cocaine and officers found a bag of cocaine in Johnson's pocket as well as two empty bags of cocaine in her purse, the report states.

Police said Johnson already had a pending case with the Florida Department of Children and Families at the time of his arrest.

Johnson was being held at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on $5,000 bail as of Monday afternoon, according to jail records.