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DURYEA &mdash; Borough police arrested two people on child endangerment and drug possession charges after a man called 911 reporting his wife was using narcotics with other men in the attic of their apartment Tuesday morning.
				Police allege Edward Joseph Martinez, 44, and Patricia Diane O&rsquo;Donovan, 38, were both under the influence of methamphetamine when officers responded to their residence on Main Street at about 7:30 a.m.
				A 4-year-old boy was taken from the home and placed in protective custody with Luzerne County Children & Youth Services.
				According to the criminal complaint:
				Martinez called 911 and reported his &ldquo;wife&rdquo; was engaged in drug use with other men in the attic. Martinez further claimed he had pictures of his wife engaged in lewd conduct with the child and showed an officer pictures from his cell phone.
				Police in the complaint said the multiple pictures Martinez displayed on his cell phone were &ldquo;photographs of nothing,&rdquo; comparing the pictures to a white television screen.
				When the officer told Martinez he could not make out the pictures, he replied the officer, &ldquo;needed to use my imagination,&rdquo; the complaint says.
				Martinez allegedly told police he would hear random noises and observe things that were not there such believing bird feces on a wall was a syringe.
				Police entered the home finding O&rsquo;Donovan and a child sleeping on a mattress in a second floor bedroom. A glass pipe commonly used to smoke methamphetamine or crack cocaine and a bag of suspected methamphetamine were observed on a night stand next to the mattress, the complaint says. 
				O&rsquo;Donovan claimed that she and Martinez used methamphetamine within the last two days and Martinez became &ldquo;out of control,&rdquo; as he yelled at the walls believing people were inside, the complaint says. 
				Martinez and O&rsquo;Donovan were arraigned by District Judge Alexandra Kokura Kravitz in Pittston on charges of endangering the welfare of a child, possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of marijuana. They were jailed at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility for lack of $25,000 bail, each.

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