EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — Two women were arrested after El Paso County Sheriff’s Office deputies said a child custody exchange in the Sparks community escalated into an aggravated assault involving a vehicle and put a 2-year-old child in danger.
Deputies were dispatched Tuesday to the 100 block of Dickens Road in reference to an aggravated assault in progress, according to the sheriff’s office.
Deputies met with the victims, who reported that during the custody exchange, the child’s mother, 24-year-old Ebony Martinez, and her associate, 24-year-old Araceli Uzeta, became aggressive.
Investigators said Martinez and Uzeta intentionally used their vehicle to strike the victims’ vehicle multiple times during a brief chase through the Sparks area.
Deputies said a 2-year-old child was inside the suspects’ vehicle during the incident, placing the child in imminent danger.
Both suspects fled the scene, and criminal warrants were issued for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and endangering a child, the sheriff’s office said.
Deputies later located Uzeta along with the vehicle used in the incident.
Uzeta was taken into custody and the vehicle was impounded. Deputies later located Martinez, who was also taken into custody without incident.
Uzeta was booked into the El Paso County Detention Center on two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and endangering a child, with a total bond of $60,000.
Martinez was booked on the same charges and is being held without bond.
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