EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — 30-year-old Angel Villagrana Gutierrez was arrested after the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office said 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 abandoning/endangering a child with the intent to return and booked into the El Paso County Detention Facility with a $30,000 bond.
The children were returned to their mother, and Child Protective Services was notified.
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