{"id":387897,"date":"2026-09-02T04:24:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T04:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/387897\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T04:24:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T04:24:24","slug":"man-drove-drunk-with-kids-in-car-hit-tree-before-leaving-them-at-doral-park-cops-say-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/387897\/","title":{"rendered":"Man drove drunk with kids in car, hit tree before leaving them at Doral park, cops say \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man accused of driving drunk with two kids in a car before leaving them unattended at a Doral park has been arrested, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Shawn Samuels, 28, was arrested Sunday on two counts of child neglect with no great bodily harm, an arrest report said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, officers responded to Trails and Tails Park at 11645 Northwest 50th Street and found the children, a 5-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl, with a passerby who stopped to help them.<\/p>\n<p>The girl said she was in a vehicle with Samuels after she saw him drinking alcohol at a local entertainment venue, and said after leaving he was driving erratically and struck a tree in the Doral\/Sweetwater area, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>She said she eventually got out of the car with the boy for their safety while Samuels drove off, leaving them unattended, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Samuels was found by police at the park throwing up, with damage to his car, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>A DUI investigation revealed his blood alcohol level to be .202, more than twice Florida&#8217;s legal limit of .08, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Samuels was booked into jail. Attorney information wasn&#8217;t available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man accused of driving drunk with two kids in a car before leaving them unattended at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[14180,225,227,226],"class_list":["post-387897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-doral","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}