{"id":383481,"date":"2026-01-02T12:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/383481\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T12:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:08:07","slug":"arrest-made-after-toddler-found-alone-during-attempted-car-theft-in-highland-park-los-angeles-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/383481\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest made after toddler found alone during attempted car theft in Highland Park, Los Angeles police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HIGHLAND PARK, LOS ANGELES (KABC) &#8212; The 19-year-old mother of a nearly 2-year-old boy has been arrested after the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/los-angeles-police-seek-help-identifying-young-boy-found-car-attempted-theft-highland-park\/18332953\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">child was found alone following an attempted car theft in Highland Park<\/a>, police confirmed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The toddler&#8217;s mother, Bianca Slaughter, was taken into custody and booked on felony charges, but the Los Angeles Police Department did not specify what the charges were.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Her arrest comes after a man reported that someone was trying to steal his car on North Avenue 52 on Sunday. The would-be thief, whom the victim described as a Hispanic man, ran away, but the car owner was surprised to see a young boy in his car, along with a dog.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The incident prompted a search for the boy&#8217;s family, but LAPD said that nobody had come forward for days. On Wednesday, LAPD announced that the child had been identified, as well as his biological parents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The toddler will remain in the custody of the Department of Children and Family Services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Meanwhile, the dog that was found is in the care of Los Angeles County Animal Services, with no license tag or microchip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It remains unclear how the toddler and the dog ended up in the car or what charges the mother was taken into custody on. The investigation into the incident remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HIGHLAND PARK, LOS ANGELES (KABC) &#8212; The 19-year-old mother of a nearly 2-year-old boy has been arrested after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[186908,23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-383481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-186908","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}