Hammond woman charged with neglect

A Hammond woman was charged after allegedly drinking, leaving her kid in a running car parked partially on the road, then “yelling” at the cops.

Ana Gonzalez, 35, was charged Dec. 27 with neglect of a dependent, a Level 6 felony, disorderly conduct and public intoxication, both class B misdemeanors.

She posted a $1,000 bond on Jan. 2. Her next court date is Jan. 19.

Schererville Police responded at 10:08 p.m. Dec. 26 to the 1100 block of S. Cline Ave. in Griffith.

Officers saw Gonzalez’s car left running without lights, parked partly on Cline Avenue’s northbound lane. Her son, 10, was in the back seat. He said Gonzalez ran to pick up his cousin.

After a vehicle pulled up to a house down the block, Gonzalez walked up the poorly lit block from there and tried to get back into her car.

The officer noticed her eyes were “bloodshot,” she was “slurring” words and smelled like alcohol, according to the affidavit. She denied a cup in the car had booze in it.

“I just live down the road,” she told the officer.

The officer asked why she left the boy for at least 15 minutes, saying he could have been hit, or someone could have stolen the car. Gonzalez said her son was fine and argued she wasn’t parked in the road, asking for the officer’s supervisor.

She then said there was booze in the cup, but it was “old.”

When a sergeant arrived, Gonzalez talked over them and was allegedly still being “loud’.

Gonzalez consented to a portable Breathalyzer that registered .175, according to the affidavit, more than twice the state limit of .08. As she was taken to jail, the cop alleged she was “disorderly.”

mcolias@post-trib.com