Man Charged in Toddler Son’s Drug Overdose

A social media account that appeared to belong to 38-year-old Levittown resident Coco Wallace said he would “not rest” until he got an answer on how his 27-month-old son died.

On Tuesday he did. Middletown Township police said at a press conference that test results and an autopsy revealed little Sebastian “Buddy” Wallace died from an overdose of Oxycodone that allegedly belonged to his father.

Wallace and his mother took Sebastian from Wallace’s apartment at Foxwood Manor in Levittown to Lower Bucks Hospital on October 22 at 6:30 p.m. because his son was having difficulty breathing. Sebastian died just over an hour later. An autopsy was conducted the following day, where 1200 mg of Oxycodone was found in the 27-month-old boy’s system. No hospital emergency room treatment reports dictate administering the drug to Sebastian while he was in their care, according to court documents.

According to forensic pathologist Dr. Ian Hood, Sebastian died from three times the amount of Oxycodone it would take to kill an average adult.

Wallace, who worked as a promoter of erotic videos, was arraigned by Judge Joanne Kline earlier Tuesday and charged with criminal homicide, recklessly endangering another person, endangering the welfare of a child and possession of a controlled substance. No bail was set, as is common in homicide cases. Wallace was transported to Bucks County Prison where he will await a preliminary hearing.

According to Bucks County District Attorney David Heckler, the charges come after a month-long investigation into the case by the Middletown Township Police Department.

“Law enforcement was to some extent back-footed on this case because we did not know for some time, really until the autopsy, the extent of the poisoning by Oxycodone,” Heckler said. “[Wallace] did a number of things to conceal his criminality.”

The case began when the coroner’s office contacted Wallace shortly after his son’s death to ask if he had any pills laying around, Wallace informed the coroner’s office that he didn’t and that it “had gotten him thinking about how something could’ve gotten into Sebastian’s system.” Wallace later informed the coroner he had gotten a bag of pills from a friend. Wallace said he identified the pills after looking them up on the internet, as Oxycodone 40’s, the same pill found in Sebastian’s system, according to court documents.

When police later interviewed the friend that Wallace said gave him pills, he noted that he had come to Wallace’s apartment the day before Sebastian died in an effort to exchange pills for two laptop computers. When police asked Wallace, he noted the pills had never come into the apartment, according to the affidavit of probable cause.

Detectives later interviewed both Sebastian’s mother and Wallace’s girlfriend, both of whom claimed that Wallace had thrown a bag of “Oxys” worth $1,000 out of the car window onto I-95 just three days after Sebastian’s death. The young boy’s mother, a resident of North Carolina, said she came to the area upon learning of her son’s death. She said she was with Wallace on October 25 when he told her he was “changing his ways” and that he had thrown the bag out of the car while with his girlfriend earlier that day, according to police record.

As noted in court documents, Wallace told police that the women were lying before later admitting to police he was in possession of the pills. He later admitted to police he didn’t want to tell them about the pills because, “I didn’t want to bring suspicion against myself,” he said.

Although police say “it will come out in court,” those working on the case do not believe the child ingested the drugs accidentally.  Wallace was known to have a 9-year-old daughter also living in the house, although she was not present during the incident. The Bucks County DA has noted that her welfare is being taken care of by Children and Youth.

“DVD hustle have to continue. Daddy need to keep the Mapouka Empire that you suppose to be running when you got older,” Wallace said on his Facebook page. “I miss you a lot have not slept for weeks. Hope you understand my lil man, daddy loved U no matter what !!”

LevittownNow.com Publisher/Editor Tom Sofield contributed to this report

Editor’s Note: All individuals arrested or charged with a crime are presumed innocent until proven guilty. The story was compiled using information from police and public court documents.

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