A toddler in a house with guns laying about was found alone in a bedroom trying to eat bullets. An infant also was injured when a man reportedly hurled a brick into the car window. The child’s pregnant mother was also hurt.
CANTON Just minutes before county agents went to a Canton home as part of a drug investigation, Canton police were called to the same address about a domestic dispute they say left a pregnant woman and her baby injured.
Investigators say they arrested a man awaiting trial in a drug trafficking case and a man whose toddler was found trying to eat bullets in the house amid several guns Tuesday afternoon.
Stark County Metro Narcotics Unit agents used a search warrant to go to the Virginia Place NE home of 27-year-old Elijah L. Farrakhan when someone called police about a domestic dispute.
Stark County Jail records allege Farrakhan punched a pregnant woman in the face and stomach, dragged her down a flight of stairs and hurled a brick through her car window where a baby was seated.
The child, whom city police reports show is 10 months old, was hurt by the broken glass and the brick, according to the jail records. Their injuries were described as “not life-threatening,” said Lt. Dennis Garren of the Canton Police Department.
Jail records show that Farrakhan was jailed on two counts each of having weapons under disability and domestic violence.
Stark County court records show he is awaiting trial on multiple counts of aggravated drug trafficking and possession of methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin and a fentanyl-related compound. He had been arrested on those charges Oct. 29 and released after posting $100,000 bond.
The case against him has not gone to trial. The court records show that prosecutors have attached a major drug offender specification to each charge.
Inspector Bill Jones, who heads the metro drug unit, said that he and his officers were going to Farrakhan’s home Tuesday with the search warrant. But city police had been called minutes earlier.
The agents found numerous guns “out in the open” in the home, court records show.
They arrested a 22-year-old man, who lives on Third Street SE in Massillon, at the Virginia address.
He is accused of leaving a small child alone in an upstairs bedroom. The agents found the toddler holding ammunition and trying to place bullets into his mouth, the jail records show.
The man was jailed on a misdemeanor endangering children charge. He was released after posting $264 bond. (The Canton Repository does not typically name misdemeanor crime suspects.)
Farrakhan remained behind bars Wednesday, held in lieu of $85,000 bond pending a Canton Municipal Court hearing.
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