Friday, 10:25 a.m.: Florida man arrested after baby left alone in shopping center parking lot
A father faces felony child neglect charges after a Florida Highway Patrol trooper spotted a baby left alone in a car outside a Best Buy store.
Authorities say trooper Edy Rivera saw the infant in a car seat inside a locked car.
He went into the store, looking for the vehicle’s owner.
When no one came forward, he broke the vehicle’s window and got the baby boy out.
A short time later, officials say 34-year-old Haider Darwash returned to the vehicle.
He told troopers he thought his wife had the baby.
She was located standing in line at another business in the shopping center.
The child was not harmed.
Darwash was booked into jail.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/shoppers-head-out-for-black-thursday/2013/11/28/e5a7b992-58ac-11e3-bdbf-097ab2a3dc2b_story.html
A father faces felony child neglect charges after a Florida Highway Patrol trooper spotted a baby left alone in a car outside a Best Buy store.
Authorities say trooper Edy Rivera saw the infant in a car seat inside a locked car.
He went into the store, looking for the vehicle’s owner.
When no one came forward, he broke the vehicle’s window and got the baby boy out.
A short time later, officials say 34-year-old Haider Darwash returned to the vehicle.
He told troopers he thought his wife had the baby.
She was located standing in line at another business in the shopping center.
The child was not harmed.
Darwash was booked into jail.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/shoppers-head-out-for-black-thursday/2013/11/28/e5a7b992-58ac-11e3-bdbf-097ab2a3dc2b_story.html