NYC mom arrested for eating pot brownies, falling down stairs with kids in arms

A Manhattan parent was arrested for kid endangerment for falling down the stairs portion holding her babe successful 1 limb and her toddler successful the different aft eating cookware brownies, constabulary said Monday.

Michelle Ruiz called 911 astatine 1:36 p.m. Sunday to study smelling gas, worrying determination was a occurrence successful her flat gathering connected La Salle St. adjacent W. 124th St. successful Morningside Heights, cops said.

Before the FDNY arrived she fled her flat with her kids and fell down the stairs arsenic she ran for safety. When archetypal responders arrived she was successful beforehand of the building.

Her 2-month-old lad and 16-month-old girl were bruised connected their look and assemblage from the autumn and treated astatine New York-Presbyterian Hospital Columbia.

FDNY officials accidental firefighters stayed connected country for an hr but detected nary foul odor oregon gas.

Ruiz, 31, was arrested aft admitting she had earlier eaten brownies made with cannabis, constabulary said.

She is charged with 2 counts of endangering the payment of a child. Her arraignment successful Manhattan Criminal Court was pending Monday.