A 45-year-old Indiana mother took a plea deal and was sentenced to 2½ years in Allen County Community Corrections Residential Services for felony intimidation and misdemeanor false informing after allegedly locking her son in a closet, forcing him to use a Pringles can as a toilet, and giving him pills that made him feel intoxicated.
The Fort Wayne Police Department arrested Angie Harlan in August after her son ran away from his foster family. She allegedly denied having the boy in her custody before two officers and a Department of Child Services caseworker found him under a bed.
The terms of the plea agreement dismissed two neglect charges, a confinement charge, and an additional false informing charge. Those charges carried a potential sentence of nearly 20 years…