In the afternoon on December 23, on-duty patrol officers with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department tried to pull over a man driving a truck.
The driver allegedly sped up instead of stopping, and the police called for backup while they tried to chase after him.
Three people are accused of child endangerment after five children were reportedly discovered in a handmade wooden box attached to the bed of the pickup truck in which they were traveling.
On the afternoon of May 12, the temperature outside was recorded as having a high ranging being between 90 to 100-degrees in the Needles area of San Bernardino County, California.
According to a release from the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department, near 2:00 pm, the authorities received from a phone call requesting service at a rest stop claiming there might be youngsters riding in the back of a pickup truck inside a crate. The caller reportedly suspected the children might be in danger.
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