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Parents charged in 2-year-old's overdose in Akron

Posted at 12:12 PM, May 03, 2017
and last updated 2017-05-03 12:12:21-04

Akron police have charged two parents in connection to the March overdose of a 2-year-old child.

Randy Boggs, 27, and Catelynn Smiley, 21, are charged with child endangering. 

The child overdosed on a synthetic opiate on March 7.

"His lips are blue," the caller told the dispatcher. "He's having a hard time breathing."

The overdose happened at the 2-year-old's grandparents house but police say Boggs was there at the time, playing video games with his friends.

The child had to be revived with Naloxone.