Police say couple left kids in car while they drank margaritas
A man and a woman were arrested Sunday after police said they left their two children in a sport-utility vehicle while drinking margaritas in an Austin-area restaurant.
Austin police said Beatriz Pedroza and Miguel Lopez were each charged with one count of abandoning or endangering a child after they left their 1-year-old boy and 5-month-old girl in a Ford Expedition around 8 p.m. Sunday.
The couple went into Rio Grande restaurant in Hutto and drank margaritas for about a half hour before police were called.
Pedroza said she had been "partying" on Sixth Street in Austin for most of the day and then drove drunk to the Hutto restaurant with the children in the car, according to the affidavit.
"Beatriz stated that she did not regret driving from Austin to Hutto drunk, leaving her children in the car to go inside the restaurant to have a margarita," according to the affidavit.
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