LAKEPORT, Calif. – Lakeport Police officers have taken a woman into custody after her young child was found Thursday night wandering in a city street.
Sophia Maria Pulido, 39, address unknown, was arrested and booked into the Lake County Jail late Thursday night, Lakeport Police Chief Brad Rasmussen reported.
At 7:15 p.m. Thursday Lakeport Police Department Sgt. Joe Eastham, who was off-duty at the time, and a citizen who were both traveling on Martin Street near Brush Street at the same time located a 2-year-old boy in the middle of the road, Rasmussen said.
Rasmussen said Eastham immediately took protective custody of the child and notified on-duty patrol officers.
Officers responded to the scene and began a neighborhood search while also putting out an online community alert at about 8 p.m., Rasmussen said.
In the police department’s online alert, they asked for leads to help locate the parents of the child, who they described as an Indian male with shoulder-length black hair, brown eyes, and wearing a camo shirt, black pants and white socks.
Within minutes of that alert being issued, community members started sending in leads, Rasmussen said.
He said within an hour officers tracked down the mother, identified as Pulido, at a metal shop on Brush Street between Martin Street and Armstrong Street.
Pulido was determined to be under the influence of methamphetamine and placed under arrest for that as well as felony child endangerment, Rasmussen said.
During the search the child was kept under care by Sgt. Mike Sobieraj at the police station. Rasmussen said Lake County Child Protective Services later responded and took custody of the child.
Rasmussen thanked his officers and the community for bringing a quick resolution to this case.
Anyone with information on the case is asked to contact the Lakeport Police Department by calling 707-263-5491 and asking to speak with an officer, sending the agency a private Facebook message to @LakeportPolice or sending an anonymous text message from your cellular phone by texting the words TIP LAKEPORT followed by your message to 888777.
Police arrest mother in case of child found in street; additional leads sought
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