An Indiana couple insists they didn't sell their infant son to a pair of alleged drug dealers.
Anna Marie Riggs and her husband Brandon claim that they didn't trade the infant for $13,000 in cash, $3,500 for a Lincoln automobile, and 50 Oxycontin pills, as police allege.
Instead, the couple says that they were doing what was best for the child, who suffered medical complications after being born addicted to methadone.
“In no kind of way did we sell our baby. Not money, not drugs, nor a simple car have any part in the adoption process,” Brandon wrote in a letter to the Pharos-Tribune.
The father, currently incarcerated in Cass County Jail on unrelated drug charges, insisted that the couple was "in no way capable of caring for a newborn."
Anna Marie gave birth to Brandon Riggs Jr. in June of 2009. But due to her own problems with addiction, she too felt that she could not provide for the infant, according to San Diego's 10-News.
So they gave the child to Stephen and Melissa Lynch -- two accused drug dealers.
The couples didn't try to make the adoption official until March 2011, when the Lynches attempted to file a petition for adoption through Howard Circuit Courts, according to investigators. But the court denied the request, a press release from the county sheriff explains.
In May, a tipster informed authorities that the child had been sold -- prompting an investigation by Indiana's Howard County Sheriff's Department.
On Oct. 6, police arrested Stephen Lynch, according to an article published earlier this month in the Kokomo Tribune. Melissa Lynch remains at large.
On Thursday, Anna Marie was taken into custody while visiting family in California. She is not accused of fleeing her home state to avoid detainment.
Anna Marie, 26, will face six felony charges when she is extradited to Indiana, which Howard County Sheriff Steve Rogers says should occur during the coming weeks.
Child Protective Services is now caring for the boy.