LEESBURG, Florida—A woman who was arrested for child neglect last year after a toddler in her care overdosed and required three doses of Narcan has been arrested again for child neglect and drug trafficking, along with numerous other charges.
Leesburg Police responded to Microtel Inn, 9700 U.S. Highway 441 Thursday morning in reference to multiple warrants for Destinee Rose Keen, 29. After finding out what room she was staying in, LPD knocked on the door of Room 110 and police found her in the room with a child whose information is redacted from the arrest affidavit.
In plain view, officers found a scale, 5 grams of unprescribed medical marijuana, nearly 3 grams of methamphetamine and 92 grams of methamphetamine/marijuana edible candy. Keen told police they were just marijuana edibles she got from a friend, but when a sergeant broke a piece of the candy, it had a crystal substance in the center. The candies field tested positive for both methamphetamine and marijuana, according to the affidavit.
The child was turned over to Keen’s boyfriend and Keen was arrested for trafficking in methamphetamine, possession of marijuana with intent to sell, possession of drug paraphernalia and child neglect. Several charges have been added since she was booked into the Lake County Jail, including failure to appear and three counts of violation of probation. She is being held on no bond.
In September 2020, Keen took an unresponsive 3-year-old child to The Villages Regional Hospital, according to a probable cause affidavit. Lake County Sheriff’s Office deputies met with a Sumter County Sheriff’s Office deputy who told them the child was given Narcan and intubated and started to “come around” and extubated, according to the affidavit. The SCSO deputy said the child then “crashed” and was given two more doses of Narcan. The toddler had amphetamine and Fentanyl in his system, according to the affidavit. The relationship between Keen and that child is unknown, and it is unknown if that child was the same one with her at her most recent arrest.
