Lewisburg couple arrested after meth, drug-making materials found with infant

A 5-month-old child was living in a Lewisburg home where investigators said they found methamphetamine, multiple other drugs and materials used to make drugs, a combination that turned a drug arrest into a child-safety case with serious implications for Union County. Buffalo Valley Regional Police arrested Breeana M. Streeter, 25, and Alexander Michael, 30, both of North Fourth Street, after Streeter tested positive for methamphetamine and officers searched the residence.

The address matters because it places the alleged activity inside a family home in the borough, not in an isolated stash site or a street-level transaction. Buffalo Valley Regional Police covers the Lewisburg area and the broader eastern Union County corridor after the Lewisburg Borough Police and East Buffalo Township Police merged in 2012. That makes the department the frontline agency when narcotics cases overlap with domestic concerns, child welfare and neighborhood safety.

Under Pennsylvania law, a parent, guardian or other caretaker can be charged with endangering the welfare of a child if that person knowingly places a child at risk by violating a duty of care, protection or support. State child-abuse guidance also treats a child’s presence at a location where methamphetamine-lab activity is occurring as a possible child-abuse issue when law enforcement investigates. In practical terms, a home that contains drug-making materials can trigger two parallel responses: a criminal case for the adults and a protective review for the child.

Pennsylvania’s child-welfare system is county-administered and state-supervised, which means county children-and-youth agencies handle child-protective-services investigations and general protective-services assessments. For a case like this one, that can mean immediate questions about the infant’s placement, medical condition and longer-term safety, along with scrutiny over whether the home environment exposed the child to chemicals, drug use or other hazards.

The arrests underscore a recurring local risk first responders confront in Lewisburg and the surrounding county, where a narcotics call can quickly become a child-endangerment investigation. With a 5-month-old in the home, the stakes reach beyond possession or manufacturing allegations and into the basic question of whether a child was kept safe inside the walls of a family residence.