Jonesboro, AR – (JonesboroRightNow.com) – Jan. 27, 2025 – A Brookland woman has been charged with 24 felonies after allegedly allowing her four children to ingest marijuana and THC edibles.

On Jan. 24 around 10:40 a.m., Detective Dustin Norwood with the Brookland Police Department received a complaint regarding child maltreatment. The complainant told Norwood she was an investigator with the Department of Human Services, and that 36-year-old Deanna Woods had been allowing her children to consume marijuana and THC edibles at her home in Brookland.

According to the affidavit, one of Woods’s children told the complainant on Jan. 23 that Woods allowed them to consume edibles and use her vape pen. When DHS drug-tested the victim, they tested positive for THC. The complainant also said Woods had a medical marijuana card valid through 2025.

The DHS investigator said the department removed two victims from Woods’s custody on Jan. 23, since she admitted that “she had allowed [the victim] to eat marijuana/THC edibles and had also allowed [the victim] to smoke her vape pen containing THC.” Woods also told the investigator she smoked marijuana around her children.

Woods was due back at DHS’s Jonesboro office for an interview with investigators to further discuss the allegations on Jan. 24. Norwood told the investigator he would be in the parking lot to arrest Woods, where she would be taken to the Craighead County Sheriff’s Office for an interview. After the interview, she was arrested and taken to the detention center.

During her Mirandized interview, Woods gave “incriminating statements” that she had given her children marijuana/THC chocolate and honey and allowed them to smoke her marijuana THC vape pen, according to the affidavit, and that she smoked marijuana around them. Woods said she did this as a “deterrent for [the victims] to not use these substances.” She added these actions had taken place from the summer of 2024 to present.

According to the affidavit, Woods did the above-listed actions with three of her four children. She also reportedly smoked marijuana while breastfeeding one of her children from the summer of 2024 to present.

She is charged with 12 counts of 1st-degree endangering the welfare of a minor, a Class D felony, and 12 counts of introduction of a controlled substance into the body of another person, a Class C felony, for a total of 24 felony charges.

According to the affidavit, Woods was given 12 counts for each felony charge due to her “admissions that she had given marijuana/THC, and/or smoked marijuana around the four children on 12 occasions total between the four victims.”

Woods was given a $25,000 cash or surety bond and a court date of Feb. 28 at 8:30 a.m. If she makes bond, she is not to have any contact with her children. She’s being held in the Craighead County Detention Center.

Editor’s Note: To protect the privacy of the alleged victims, JRN has chosen not to divulge information about them, including age and gender. 

To report child maltreatment, call the Arkansas Child Abuse Hotline at 1-800-482-5964. These tips and reports can be confidential in nature.