Greenacres couple arrested after baby and suspected pot found in home

GREENACRES, Fla. - A Greenacres couple was arrested Monday evening when a child services investigator and a deputy found both a baby and suspected marijuana in their home.

Ariel Roslyn Mulvey, 18, and Ashley L. Sloan, 20, are being held at the Palm Beach County Jail in lieu of $4,000 and $3,000 bond, respectively. They are facing charges for possession of cannabis, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, possession of drug paraphernalia and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence.

According to the probable cause affidavit, a Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputy met with a Florida Department of Children and Families investigator at 8:51 p.m. Monday to remove a one-year-old child from the home in the 300 block of Jennings Avenue because of alleged drug use and domestic violence.

When the two knocked on the door of the home, three people -- Mulvey, Sloan and a 17-year-old - walked out with "strong odor of the suspected marijuana emanating" from them, the affidavit stated. Inside, the investigator and the deputy found a baseball cap that was concealing a "pile of loose green leafy substance, cigars wrapped with the similar leafy substance and four additional cigars in the wrapping."

The 17-year-old's parents later told the deputy that the teenager had told his parents that he was going to "get a gun and shoot himself next week." They added that they were afraid for his safety and requested a psychiatric evaluation while he is incarcerated in the Juvenile Assessment Center.

The affidavit does not elaborate further on the removal of the baby.