Mother arrested for leaving toddler in hot car

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Police arrested a mother accused of leaving her three-year-old child strapped in a hot car Tuesday in Albuquerque.

Officers arrested 35-year-old Gabriela Cardenas for leaving her child unattended in a car in a Walgreens parking lot.

Police received a 911 call from a concerned employee who saw a child screaming, crying and red in the face as they sat in the backseat of a parked vehicle with windows cracked “only slightly.”…

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