Woman who got probation in baby’s death accused of stealing from Conley Road Sam’s Club
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
A woman who was sentenced to probation in 2024 in an infant’s 2019 death is facing a felony charge in a new case.
Lavosha Daniels, of St. Louis, was charged on Monday in Boone County with felony stealing. A warrant was ordered on Monday and a $10,000 bond was set. She was not listed on the Boone County Jail roster on Wednesday afternoon.
The probable cause statement claims Daniels stole four Ninja Slushi machines on Jan. 14 from the Sam’s Club on Conley Road in Columbia. She allegedly stole two machines at 3:37 p.m. that day and came back at 4:56 p.m. to take two more, the statement says. Video allegedly showed her taking the items, court documents say.
Daniels had pleaded guilty on Dec. 16, 2024, to abandoning a corpse and first-degree involuntary manslaughter. She was sentenced to five years of probation along with an 11-year suspended sentence for the charges.
Prosecutors on Monday filed a motion to revoke her probation in light of the new charge filed.
She had originally been charged with corpse abandonment and child endangerment causing death after Samone Daniels, who was 4-5 months old, was found dead outside of a tire store in 2019.
The baby died after allegedly being strangled by Staffone Fountain, who was sentenced to seven years in prison.
Police arrested Fountain and Daniels in 2022 after someone found a note apparently from Daniels addressed to police in a different hotel describing what happened. Prosecutors claimed that Fountain may have struck the child and placed her in an unsafe sleeping position when he put the child in a car seat and placed her in the bathtub.
