ST. ELIZABETH - Police arrested five people after they found a dead infant during a drug raid at a home in St. Elizabeth.
Medical examiners at University Hospital in Columbia completed an autopsy Thursday morning on an infant found dead at the scene of a drug bust in St. Elizabeth. The Miller County Sheriff's Department has not released any further information about the autopsy.
During the raid, investigators discovered a "very young" infant in the trunk of a car, Miller County Sheriff Bill Abbott said Thursday in a press release. Police arrested five people Tuesday afternoon in a drug raid at 740 Main St. in St. Elizabeth. They are each held on $500,000 bail at the Miller County Detention Facility in connection with the raid.
One of the women arrested in Tuesday's raid recently applied for a job at Ms. Kitty's Place in St. Elizabeth according to waitress Becky Cochran.
"We knew that she had lived down there or stayed within the house so we never even considered having her work here," Cochran said.
Neighbors said the residents of the home kept to themselves and that the house was known for drug activity. They reported seeing law enforcement at the home several times over the past four years.