Police in Kentucky are urgently searching for an 8-month-old baby who has been missing for weeks, and have arrested the baby’s parents after they were found barricaded in a motel with fentanyl and methamphetamine.
The boy, identified as Mya Tucker Ladd of Reynolds Station, Ohio, was reported missing by Kentucky State Police on Thursday. Police executed a search warrant and searched the family’s home but did not find the boy. Reynolds Station is about 90 miles southwest of Louisville.
A Kentucky State Police spokesperson told Fox News Digital that no other family members had seen her since early May. Child Protective Services had been searching for the girl but contacted police after they were unable to locate her, the spokesperson said.
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Missing baby Mya Tucker (center) with her parents Tesla Tucker (left) and Cage C. Ladd (right). Tesla Tucker was reported missing after police ran warrants and background checks but were unable to find the child. (Kentucky State Police)
The girl’s mother, Tesla Tucker, 29, and father, Cage C. Ladd, 30, were found Wednesday at a motel in Owensboro with no information about the girl’s whereabouts and in possession of a large amount of drugs, including fentanyl. Owensboro is about 25 miles west of Reynolds Station.
“[We] “We have attempted to interview the parents, but they have not been very cooperative with our investigation,” Officer Corey King, a spokesperson for the Kentucky State Police, told Fox News Digital.
He said he didn’t know where the child was, but that he may be with other family members.
“There’s a lot of potential when it comes to something like this,” King said.
Officers arrested the pair and charged them with drug trafficking and possession, abandonment of a minor and child abuse. They are being held at the Davis County Detention Center in Owensboro, Kentucky State Police said.
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Kentucky State Police vehicle. (Scotty Perry/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Rudd was also charged with possession of methamphetamine.
According to the Kentucky Department of Corrections, Rudd was convicted in March of two drug-related offenses, including possession of methamphetamine, and was on probation for one year.
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A file photo of pills containing fentanyl seized at the border. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection)
Police also charged another man, Ricky Smith, who lived with the couple at their Deanfield Church Road home, in connection with the case. Police say Smith used the home as a base for drug trafficking. He is charged with drug offenses, child abuse and endangering the welfare of a child.
King said they found a variety of drugs in the home during the initial search.
Police said Mya Tucker has brown hair and green eyes. Kentucky State Police said she was last seen in the custody of her parents.
Anyone with information is asked to call 270-826-3312.
