Prosecutors said Sydney Marquez, 29, was arrested Thursday, April 19,...

Prosecutors said Sydney Marquez, 29, was arrested Thursday, April 19, 2018, after she gave a marijuana-laced brownie to her 4-year-old son. Credit: New York State Police

A Port Jefferson woman accused of giving a marijuana-laced brownie to her 4-year-old son is facing five criminal charges, prosecutors said.

Sydney Marquez, 29, appeared Friday in First District Court in Central Islip on four drug charges and one charge related to the child. She was held on $200,000 bail, or $400,000 bond. Her next court date is Wednesday.

Marquez was represented by an attorney from the Legal Aid Society of Suffolk County, which does not comment on cases.

An investigation by the New York State Police’s Narcotics Enforcement Unit found that Marquez sold drugs from her Facebook page, prosecutors said. She then mailed marijuana, concentrated THC, edible marijuana in the form of candy and cookies and hallucinogenic mushrooms, they said.

“The brazenness of the defendant is notable,” said Suffolk District Attorney Tim Sini. “She was selling drugs over Facebook. The strength of our evidence is high.”

Marquez had advertised plans to host the “First Annual Good Vibes” party on Friday at her home, where she would also sell drugs, law enforcement officials said. Marijuana enthusiasts consider April 20, Friday, an unofficial marijuana holiday.

State Police searched Marquez’s home late Thursday after learning that she had given a marijuana-laced brownie to her son, officials said.

Authorities arrested Marquez after finding marijuana, concentrated cannabis, marijuana brownies, psilocybin mushrooms, along with packaging and shipping materials, books and records detailing her business, officials said.

The child, who was asleep in the basement, was hospitalized and released to the care of a family member, officials said.

Marquez was charged with criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second and fourth degree; criminal sale of marijuana in the fourth and seventh degree and unlawfully dealing with a child in the first degree. She faces 6 to 14 years in prison if convicted of all charges.

Marquez has previous convictions for grand larceny, criminal contempt, forgery and criminal possession of a controlled substance, prosecutors said.

Marquez is the daughter of Acting Suffolk County Supreme Court Judge and Acting Family Court Judge Jeffrey Arlen Spinner, according to Mary Porter, spokeswoman for Suffolk Administrative Judge C. Randall Hinrichs, who is responsible for the operation of Suffolk County’s trial courts.

Marquez and Spinner appeared in Suffolk Family Court late Friday afternoon at the Cohalan Court complex in Central Islip to determine whether the child should be removed immediately from the judge’s formal custody, Porter said.

Porter said Suffolk Child Protective Services filed a pre-petition application for emergency action to take the boy from Spinner’s home in light of the criminal charge against Marquez involving the child. Suffolk election records indicate that Spinner and Marquez live at the same address.

Nassau Acting State Supreme Court Justice Thomas Rademaker was brought in to preside at the closed-door hearing, Porter said. She could not say how the judge ruled.

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