{"id":312275,"date":"2026-05-12T18:05:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/312275\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T18:05:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:05:27","slug":"woman-arrested-after-toddlers-found-with-cocaine-in-systems-during-drowning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/312275\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman arrested after toddlers found with cocaine in systems during drowning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KATY, Texas (WOAI\/KABB)  \u2014 A woman has been arrested in Florida in connection with the February drowning deaths of her two young daughters after investigators found cocaine in the children&#8217;s systems.<\/p>\n<p>Laura Nicholson, 23, was charged Friday with two counts of injury to a child following a three-month investigation by the Harris County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>On Feb. 11, 2026, detectives responded to a reported drowning of two sisters, ages 2 and 3, at a residence in the 21000 block of Creek Edge Court. <\/p>\n<p>Investigators later determined that both children had cocaine in their systems at the time of their death.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Nicholson was arrested Monday in Florida by the Caribbean Regional Fugitive Task Force and the Violent Criminal Apprehension Team. She was booked into the Lee County Jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KATY, Texas (WOAI\/KABB) \u2014 A woman has been arrested in Florida in connection with the February drowning deaths&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-312275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}