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Youth worker faces charges

Man allegedly overdosed on job

ZELIENOPLE — Borough police said a man who allegedly suffered a drug overdose Aug. 23 while working at Glade Run Lutheran Services has been charged with endangering the welfare of children.

Paul A. Ream Jr., 37, of Cranberry Township was found by a co-worker in a bathroom “lying face down in a puddle of water,” according to a police report. Ream was fired after the incident, Glade Run said.

He was “unresponsive” and “sweating profusely” as emergency personnel tended to him, according to police.

Police said they found a hypodermic needle and an empty stamp bag on Ream, and in a nearby knapsack police said they found: seven empty heroin bags, two hypodermic needles, one razor blade, a plastic teaspoon, two ear swabs, a rubber band and a plastic tube that “appeared to have vapor oil” inside.

Ream told law enforcement he used three bags of heroin, the police report states.

He was transported to Butler Memorial Hospital for treatment, but not before a bottle of various pills was recovered from his pants pocket.

Some of the pills found in the bottle included Amphetamine Dextroamphetamine; Lannett 1522 and Lorazepam.

A Harmony EMS supervisor who also was at the scene said Ream was to be monitoring students during sleep hours. A total of five children under 18 were to be under his supervision.

A co-worker said Ream was gone for about the 20 minutes, the report states.

Glade Run issued the following statement: “Glade Run has a zero-tolerance policy for such activity. No youth were involved and at no time was any resident in danger or even aware of the event.”

Ream is being charged with five counts of child endangerment. The charges are included in a summons that is to be mailed to Ream from the office of District Judge Wayne Seibel of Evans City.

No preliminary hearing date has been set.

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