{"id":883966,"date":"2026-06-22T02:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T02:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/883966\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T02:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T02:53:14","slug":"mother-arrested-after-4-year-old-found-alone-in-hot-vehicle-while-shopping-at-costco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/883966\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother arrested after 4-year-old found alone in hot vehicle while shopping at Costco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\"><strong>HARRIS COUNTY, Texas<\/strong> \u2013 A woman has been arrested after deputies say she left her 4-year-old daughter unattended inside a parked vehicle while shopping at a Costco in northwest Harris County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">According to Harris County Precinct 4, deputies responded to the Costco located in the 26900 block of the Northwest Freeway Sunday afternoon after receiving reports of a young child alone inside a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">When deputies arrived, they found the 4-year-old girl awake and responsive inside the non-running vehicle. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Emergency medical personnel evaluated the child at the scene and determined she did not need to be transported to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Authorities said the child was later released to another guardian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The child\u2019s mother was taken into custody without incident and charged with child abandonment, according to deputies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Precinct 4 officials reminded parents and caregivers that temperatures inside parked vehicles can quickly reach dangerous levels, even when windows are cracked open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">\u201cNever leave a child unattended in a vehicle for any amount of time,\u201d Precinct 4 Constable Mark Herman said in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRIS COUNTY, Texas \u2013 A woman has been arrested after deputies say she left her 4-year-old daughter unattended&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":883967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[216332,73335,4219,6386,4345,425,137774,50,358,3187],"class_list":["post-883966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-child-abandonment","tag-child-endangerment","tag-crime","tag-harris-county","tag-houston","tag-local","tag-mark-herman","tag-news","tag-texas","tag-tx"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}