WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A woman is facing charges after police say she abandoned her child in a car when she fled from officers to avoid an arrest.
According to the Wilkes-Barre Township Police Department, on December 11 around midnight, officers were called to Blackman Street for a suspicious vehicle sitting outside a construction site with no lights on.
Inside the car police located Michelle Remak, a 3-year-old child, and drug paraphilia. Officers said Remak gave them a fake name and date of birth but a mobile fingerprint scan showed her identity and Remak was wanted on two warrants.
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When Remak was about to get arrested investigators say she fled on foot and abandoned her child in the car. During the chase Remak had to be Taser to "safely subdue and arrest her", police stated.
While being searched officers said they found a hypodermic needle and Remak admitted to ingesting heroin before the incident.
The child was safely taken to the Wilkes-Barre Township Police Department and later released to a family member.
Remak has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child, flight to avoid arrest, and drug-related offenses.
