Woman and juvenile charged over smoking marijuana with 11-year-old
Palmyra police charged Andrea Allen-Ascioti, 39, and a juvenile on 11 February 2026 with endangering the welfare of a child, after police said a student ingested LSD at middle school and that she smoked marijuana with her own 11-year-old at home.
🇺🇸 Village of Palmyra, Wayne County, New York · New York, United States
Palmyra police arrested two people on Wednesday, 11 February 2026, over an
incident in which a student reportedly ingested LSD at Palmyra-Macedon Middle
School the previous September.[1]Officers went to the middle school at about
11:15 a.m. on 19 September 2025 to help with a student who was taken to
hospital, and police said the child got the substance from someone they lived
with on Cuyler Street in the village.[1]
A juvenile suspect was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and
reckless endangerment and was released to a legal guardian with appearance
tickets to probation.[1]Andrea Allen-Ascioti, 39, was arrested and charged
with endangering the welfare of a child.[1]Police said Allen-Ascioti also
smoked marijuana with her 11-year-old child on multiple occasions at her home on
Cuyler Street, which led to a second count of endangering the welfare of a
child.[1]Allen-Ascioti was taken to the Wayne County Jail and released after
arraignment, and police said they would seek an order of protection against her.[1]
Police said the juvenile was arrested at 4:33 p.m. on 11 February and
Allen-Ascioti at 5:05 p.m. the same day, both in connection with the Cuyler
Street residence.[2]
Police said the juvenile was also charged with reckless endangerment in the
second degree and must report to Wayne County Probation to answer the charges.[3]FingerLakes1 reported that police described the marijuana allegation as a
separate announcement after the LSD investigation and that Allen-Ascioti was due
at a centralized arraignment on 12 February.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
2
Charged
2
Agency
Palmyra Police Department
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis
Activity
Use
Setting
Home
Charges
endangering the welfare of a child; reckless endangerment in the second degree
Case stage
Charged
Region
New York
Sources
WHAM13wham.com2 people charged after child ingests LSD, Palmyra police say
News10NBC (WHEC)whec.comPalmyra Police: Child and adult were arrested after giving a child LSD last year
Open questions the AI reported
No weight, count or form of the marijuana was published beyond 'marijuana', so no cannabis quantity is recorded.
WHAM and FingerLakes1 both say the marijuana allegation produced a second endangerment charge, while News10NBC says she was charged only with endangering the welfare of a child; the report follows WHAM and FingerLakes1.
WHAM says Allen-Ascioti was released after arraignment, while FingerLakes1 and Newport Dispatch say she was remanded to the Wayne County Jail pending a 12 February centralized arraignment; the report uses the arraignment outcome reported by WHAM.
The sources do not say whether the 11-year-old child given marijuana is the same child who was hospitalised after reportedly ingesting LSD; the LSD ingestion is not a cannabis offence.
No court outcome, plea or trial date was reported.
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