Monday, December 6, 2010 - 2:11pm
From the Longview Police Department:
Early Sunday morning, police responded to a "Check Welfare" call in the 1600 block of Pine Tree Road. When officers arrived, a woman told them water from an upstairs apartment was running into her apartment. Officers called maintenance when they were unable to get anyone to the door. When they got in the apartment, they found 24-year-old Samantha Boland of Longview unconscious in the bathtub. The water was still running at the time they found her.
Officers found her 3-month-old baby on the bed, unattended. Officers think the baby had been left on the bed between 4-5 hours.
Boland was booked into the Gregg County Jail on charges of Abandoning/Endangering a Child.