Fayetteville police say teens were drugged with drinks of liquid Ecstasy
FAYETTEVILLE (WTVD) -- Fayetteville police said Monday they believe they've confiscated the largest weapons cache in department history. The discovery came after authorities found three teens drugged with liquid Ecstasy.
Ashley Skaggs-Smith, 21, faces three counts of contributing to the delinquency of minors. The Fayetteville woman allegedly provided three teens in the College Lakes subdivision with liquid Ecstasy early Thursday morning.
The group was gathered at one of the teens' home, where the victim's mother said she was sleeping during the incident. She told ABC11 that another one of her children woke her up around 3 a.m. Thursday, in a panic. That's when she found her 14-year-old daughter shaking in the living room. The girl told her mother that Skaggs-Smith had given her a drink and that's when she began to feel ill. That girl, alongside a 13-year-old girl and 15-year-old boy, were transferred to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center. They've since been released.
Following the emergency response to that home, investigators obtained a search warrant for Skaggs-Smith's Westbury Drive home that she shares with her fiance, Boyce Jeff Sizemore, 51. There investigators said they recovered a stash of 47 guns. Several of them were stolen, and one was altered to become a weapon of mass destruction, said authorities.
Sizemore faces several charges including possession of stolen firearms and possession with intent to sell/deliver MDMA (Ecstasy). He posted a $16,000 bond and Smith posted an unknown bond.
Authorities said it is unclear whether more charges are forthcoming, but they're looking into Sizemore's history, hoping to figure out why he owned so many weapons. They almost described a wake-up call to police response in the community.
"It's a dangerous job," said Detective Chuck Hunter. "I mean the proliferation of weapons, you know, that are out in the community. As our Chief has said, the weapons and handguns almost become a fashion accessory."
"This is not about taking somebody's lawful right to own a firearm, but it is about getting unlawful, or unlawfully owned weapons off the street so that we don't have to respond at 1, 2, 3:00 in the morning and stand over another 16-year-old kid who's been the victim of gun violence."
On Friday, Skaggs-Smith declined to comment on the charges, but she did say the guns were Sizemore's hunting weapons.
