WHAT'S WRONG WITH STONERS?

Couple videotaping an 18 month old toddler, forcibly making it smoke a marijuana pipe

Everyone in this video was arrested and charged. And that's something that might not have happened if the suspects had not videotaped their crime.

A Pataskala home was where prosecutors said the alarming event took place.

The tape and the crime were discovered when a camcorder was sold to a Columbus pawn shop. Hard to believe, it's harder to watch.

At first, it appeared a male was smoking marijuana through a pipe and a baby was playing nearby.

Then the unthinkable happens. The male, whom police said was 18-year-old Melvin Blevins, was seen passing the pipe to the baby. You see the 18-month-old little girl resist and video cut to black. But what was recorded next likely will stun you.

16-year-old Angel Dailey, identified by police, was seen holding the little girl. The male was seen placing the pipe in front of the child's mouth. Police believed the videotaped child to be Blevins' niece.

Police arrested 16-year-old Dailey. She was charged with child endangerment and corrupting another with drugs.

Blevins is in custody facing the federal charge of distributing narcotics to a person younger than 21.
Blevins was indicted with four other males -- including Angel's dad, Don Dailey --- on federal drug and weapons charges last month.

In March, Blevins was indicted in a drug bust that police said included more than $3 million in cash and more than a ton of marijuana.

The child is now 2 years old. Police believe the tape was recorded when she was 18 months old. Blevins will appear in federal court Friday to hear his charges and indictment.

Angel Dailey remains in a juvenile-detention center, Newsome reported. Earlier this month, she pleaded not guilty to charges of corrupting and endangering the child.

THEN THERE ARE THESE TWO...

Elizabeth Lyvers and John Robert Gray. The dimwitted Kentucky couple was arrested Sunday for felony child abuse after taking pictures of Lyvers's two-year-old son smoking pot. The pair was nabbed when an employee at the convenience store where Lyvers, 24, and Gray, 20, dropped off their film called cops after seeing the offending images. According to Bardstown police, one photo shows Gray holding a pipe to the child's mouth while an unidentified man--who is being sought--lights the pipe (after his arrest, Gray acknowledged that the device contained marijuana). Lyvers's son--and a one-year-old fathered by Gray--were removed from the couple's home by state child welfare officials. The below mug shots were taken by the Nelson County Sheriff's Department.

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UPDATE:

Man to remain jailed in marijuana case
Pastaskala resident, girlfriend accused of forcing tot to smoke pot
Saturday, April 19, 2008 3:08 AM
BY JODI ANDES
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
An 18-year-old Pataskala man accused of forcing a toddler to smoke marijuana won't be released pending his trial, a federal judge ruled yesterday.
The order came after U.S. District Judge Michael H. Watson heard testimony that Melvin Blevins admitted to helping unload two truckloads of marijuana for a drug ring, which brought up to 3,000 pounds of marijuana to central Ohio weekly stowed in recreational vehicles.

He was indicted along with brothers Tim and Don Dailey, who were arrested in Pataskala in March with 2,100 tons of marijuana, $4 million in cash and more than 80 guns.

Blevins was arrested April 3 after a camcorder he sold to a pawn shop showed him and his girlfriend, Angel Dailey, forcing a toddler to smoke marijuana, Assistant U.S. Attorney David DeVillers said.

Angel Dailey is Don Dailey's 16-year-old daughter. The toddler in the tape is Blevins' niece, testified Patrick Ellis, a Columbus police narcotics officer. When Blevins was arrested, he had a loaded .22-caliber revolver, 14 Ecstasy pills and a list with five names of people who owed the Daileys money, Ellis said.

Blevins later told police he didn't know what he was to be collecting from the five.

His attorney, Michael Siewert, said in court that the charges are based largely on a time period when Blevins was still a juvenile.

Siewert questioned whether there was marijuana in the pipe and whether the toddler inhaled.

"He has no prior record. He got caught up in something a lot bigger than him and that's where we are," Siewert said of Blevins.

Blevins' mother, Dorothy Wolfe, and his stepfather, George Collins, were in court hoping to persuade Watson to let Blevins go home. His stepfather said he had been working at the family's landscaping business.

"I would like to go home with my family to spend more time with them and work," Blevins told the judge. He also wanted to go back to school next year to finish the 10th grade, which he has not done.

Blevins didn't know it was drugs he was unloading, his stepfather said.