FOUR OAKS, N.C. — A four-year-old boy who was removed from a Johnston County home during a narcotics investigation earlier this week died Saturday while staying with a grandparent, prompting an active death investigation by the Johnston County Sheriff’s Office.
The child died July 4 at a residence on Juniper Church Road near Four Oaks, three days after he and two other children were removed from a Thompson Road home by social workers following the execution of a narcotics search warrant.
Johnston County deputies were dispatched Saturday to assist Johnston County EMS with an unresponsive child. Detectives with the Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division were later called to the residence to conduct a death investigation…