EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — A traffic stop in El Paso on Tuesday led to the arrests of two parents after deputies found a driver they said was intoxicated with two young children in the vehicle.
At about 12:50 a.m., deputies with the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office stopped a vehicle after it failed to signal before making a left turn and failed to maintain a single lane of travel.
Deputies identified the driver as 25-year-old Ricardo Rivera and observed signs of intoxication, the sheriff’s office said.
After standardized field sobriety testing and further investigation, Rivera was arrested for driving while intoxicated.
He later provided breath specimens that registered a blood alcohol concentration of 0.204, nearly three times the legal limit of 0.08, according to the sheriff’s office.
Deputies also found two children, ages 2 and 3, inside the vehicle.
Rivera was taken to the Downtown Detention Facility, where he was charged with driving while intoxicated with a child under 15 years of age and issued a $2,000 bond.
Deputies also determined the children’s mother, 29-year-old Cynthia Garcia, had allegedly placed the children in imminent danger, the sheriff’s office said.
Deputies obtained two warrants for abandoning or endangering a child (reckless/criminal negligence), one for each child. Both warrants were issued with no bond.
Garcia was later taken into custody and booked into the Downtown Detention Facility.
The sheriff’s office said it was her second charge for abandoning or endangering a child within the past three months.
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