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WILKES-BARRE — A father and mother who both became unresponsive at the same time due to alleged illicit drug use while their son was in their care at a hotel pleaded guilty to endangering charges in Luzerne County Court.
Joshua Patrick, 39, of Dennison Street, Swoyersville, and Christina Marie Brojakowski, 42, of Rock Street, Glen Lyon, pleaded guilty to endangering the welfare of children before Judge David W. Lupas.
Patrick was sentenced to three-to-15 months in prison but was immediately paroled upon being awarded 144 days credit of time served.
Brojakowski is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 12.
Wilkes-Barre City police responded to the Wilkes-Barre Inn and Suites on Kidder Street where they found Patrick unresponsive and on the ground next to a vehicle and Brojakowski unresponsive and slumped over inside a hotel room on May 28, according to court records.
An 8-year-old boy was trying to wake Patrick and Brojakowski, court records say.
Police served a search warrant at the hotel room and found crack cocaine, a glass jar containing marijuana roaches, a digital scale and drug paraphernalia.
Prosecutors withdrew possession of a controlled substance charges against Patrick and Brojakowski.