Mother wanted on manslaughter charges arrested in Mississippi

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - A Lake Charles woman wanted on manslaughter charges in the death of her toddler has been arrested in Mississippi.

Summer Buxton was arrested around 2:45 p.m. at a motel in Jackson, Miss., Deputy Chief Franklin Fondel, with the Lake Charles Police Department, confirmed.

Buxton was arrested by the human trafficking division of the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office.

Fondel said she was caught after law enforcement received information she was likely in the area.

She will be booked into the Hinds County jail, pending extradition. Her bond is set at $750K.

Buxton was wanted in the death of her son, Keynan Buxton, who had methamphetamine-fentanyl and acetyl fentanyl in his system when he died in May.

Three people have now been arrested for manslaughter in his death - Adrian Higgins, Keynan’s father, was arrested the day he died, and another woman, Lezlie Mott, was arrested in December.