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Mom Arrested After Smoking Flakka, Losing Baby: Police

A South Florida woman is facing a child neglect charge after authorities say she smoked the street drug, flakka, and abandoned her 1-year-old daughter outside an office building.

Qushanna Doby, 20, was arrested early Thursday after her unattended baby was found crying and shivering just before 7 a.m., Boynton Beach Police said.

Doby was being held in the Palm Beach County Jail on $3,000 bond Thursday, records showed. It was unknown if she has an attorney.

According to an arrest report, the baby was found in the 500 block of Gulfstream Boulevard. She had a full diaper that appeared to not have been changed in a long time, the report said.

As officers were attending to the baby, Doby ran up crying and screaming "my baby," the report said.

Doby was unable to tell officers where she was but said she had smoked flakka the night before and wound up at a hotel, but left after a man wanted to have sex with her, the report said.

She walked to a nearby WalMart where she sat outside and fed the baby potato chips and put Sprite in her baby bottle, the report said.

The next thing Doby remembered was waking up in front of a Dunkin' Donuts without her daughter. She said she started running back to the WalMart and that's when she saw the police.

"Qushanna admitted to regularly smoking 'flakka,' which has caused hallucinations in the past," the report said.

The arrest is just one of several recent bizarre events with ties to flakka, an increasingly popular synthetic designer drug.

"This is the first time we've dealt with someone on Flakka, and like many law enforcement agencies in South Florida, we are working diligently to familiarize ourselves with it," Boynton Beach Police said in a statement.

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