{"id":7758,"date":"2011-06-20T16:20:08","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T20:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7758"},"modified":"2011-06-20T14:36:24","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T18:36:24","slug":"single-homeless-mom-goes-from-improper-school-enrollment-for-her-son-to-selling-crack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7758","title":{"rendered":"Single, Homeless Mom Goes From Improper School Enrollment For Her Son To Selling Crack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tanya McDowell<\/strong> went from being a sympathetic figure to a convicted drug dealing criminal in a matter of months.<\/p>\n<p>In April, the homeless single mother enrolled her son in a school in the wrong district under a babysitter&#8217;s address and was charged with larceny.<\/p>\n<p>The Connecticut mom offered a Stamford undercover officer crack cocaine, marijuana and the use of prostitutes <strong>McDowell<\/strong> was pimping from her aunt&#8217;s home in Bridgeport.<\/p>\n<p>This is a dramatic turn of events for the mother that was trying to get the best education for her son. Now he can learn from her mistakes as officers reported three incidents where <strong>McDowell<\/strong> sold drugs to them. Her bond is set at $200,000.<\/p>\n<p>Her lawyer, <strong>Darnell Crosland,<\/strong> is claiming entrapment because of the public support she received including a visit from Civil Rights activist, <strong>Reverend Al Sharpton<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanya McDowell went from being a sympathetic figure to a convicted drug dealing criminal in a matter of months. In April, the homeless single mother enrolled her son in a school in the wrong district under a babysitter&#8217;s address and was charged with larceny. The Connecticut mom offered a Stamford undercover officer crack cocaine, marijuana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}