A Linn County Grand Jury last week indicted a 38-year-old woman in connection with the death of a 14-year-old Lebanon boy last winter.
Adrian Renee Rodriguez has been charged with nine counts of furnishing alcohol to a minor and one count of frequenting a place where controlled substances are used.
The charges are related to the investigation into the death of Quentin Alexander Thacker, whose body was found in a ditch near South 9th Street and W. “C” Street in Lebanon on Jan. 18, 2009.
Sheriff Tim Mueller said detectives determined that Quentin had died after using marijuana and consuming alcohol at a party hosted by Rodriguez, at 1190 S. 9th Street, a residence where she lived at the time.
Quentin’s body was located some 120 yards away.
An autopsy determined that Quentin had died of “asphyxiation by drowning,” Mueller said. A toxicological examination determined that, at the time of his death, the boy had a blood alcohol concentration of .21 percent, and tested positively for cannabinoids,
indicating marijuana use.
The charges against Rodriguez involve eight other minors in addition to Quentin, Mueller said.
Rodriguez is in custody at the Linn County Jail, where she has been since Oct. 13, when she was arrested on an unrelated parole violation sanction. This investigation is continuing, and additional charges against Rodriguez or others are possible, Mueller said.