EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — A 30-year-old man, Angel Villagrana Gutierrez, was arrested after the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office say he left his three children unattended in a vehicle for about an hour and a half.
The incident occurred at the Pull-A-Part junkyard on Friday.
Authorities responded to a welfare check and discovered the children, ages 9, 5, and 4, alone in the vehicle.
Gutierrez was charged with three counts of abandon/endanger child with intent to return and booked into the El Paso County Detention Facility with a $30,000 bond.
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The children were returned to their mother, and Child Protective Services was notified.