Couple hung over from birthday celebration booked with drugs and improper supervision of minors when young boy missed a school bus and deputies found deplorable conditions in his home; Woman with children with her arrested for theft in a separate case

Stephen Parker, arrested with Bienemy

Desmonique Bienemy: arrested for drugs and other charges after deputies investigate why her son missed his school bus

A Violet couple hung over from her birthday celebration was booked April 30 with drug possession, improper supervision of minors and use of controlled substances in the presence of minors when their young boy missed his school bus and sheriff’s deputies found deplorable conditions in his home, Sheriff James Pohlmann said.

Desmonique Bienemy, who made 27 on April 29, and Stephen Parker, 25, both of 5705 6th St., were also both booked with contributing to the delinquency of juveniles. The couple’s 2-year-old boy and her 9-year-old boy were released to the custody of another woman. State child protection authorities were also notified.

Both Bienemy and Parker were released from jail on bonds on Wednesday.

A witness who saw the 9-year-old walking in the neighborhood in his school uniform after missing his school bus notified the Sheriff’s Office about 9 a.m. Dep. Sheriff Henry Senez found the boy, who said his parents were sleeping, and asked him to take him to his home to find out why he wasn’t in school, the sheriff said.

Parker answered the door and said the mother was sleeping and when she came to the door she admitted she had been drinking the night before celebrating her birthday and didn’t wake up in time to get the boy on the bus, the sheriff said.

The deputy reported to superiors he could see the inside of the residence appeared unfit and possibly unsafe for children. A Juvenile Division detective came out and asked the woman for permission to look through the home and she agreed, the sheriff said.

Inside, deputies found deplorable conditions and also found marijuana in a baggie and partially marijuana cigarettes. Bienemy and Parker were then arrested.

In a separate incident, a Chalmette woman who had children with her was booked with theft on April 30 when she was caught with numerous items she had taken from a shed on Regiment Street in Chalmette and had placed them in the trunk of her vehicle.

Gado Shelley, 32, 8544 Valor Drive, was also booked with three counts of contributing to the delinquency of three young children with her, two of them her children and a third the child of a neighbor, the sheriff said.

A call about a suspicious person who appeared to be taking things was made to the Sheriff’s Office in mid-afternoon, Sheriff Pohlmann said. Deputies Ryan Ajan and Gary Noriea found Shelley pulling out of a driveway on Regiment Drive in a vehicle in which the trunk was so filled it couldn’t be closed, according to a sheriff’s report.

She first said her uncle owned the property and she had permission to take the items but she declined to try to reach him to talk to deputies and finally admitted her story wasn’t true, after which she was held for investigation, the sheriff said.

A neighbor told deputies the name of the actual owner of the property and supplied a phone number for him to be reached. The owner said no one had permission to take anything and later arrived to identify his property, taken from a shed.

Shelley was arrested and her children released to the custody of the mother of one of the children that was with her at the time. Shelley has been released from jail on $5,500 bond.