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Sacramento deputies arrested a man accused of losing track of his 7-year-old granddaughter after paying a stranger to watch her so he could go to a bar.Jason Warren, 54, had given the unknown woman $20 to take the girl to a nearby thrift store on Monday, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office said.Instead, the woman took the girl to her encampment to get food before being returned unharmed, the sheriff’s office said.Deputies first responded to the parking lot of The Cinder’s Bar on Auburn Boulevard near Hemlock Street around 7:45 p.m. People who called 911 said Warren had been asking for help, alleging that his granddaughter had been kidnapped for human trafficking, according to the sheriff’s office.Warren, who was “heavily intoxicated” when deputies made contact with him, said he’d paid an unhoused woman to watch the girl before going into the bar four hours earlier, the sheriff’s office said. Surveillance footage showed the woman leaving with the child.The woman later heard PA announcements from the sheriff’s helicopter and returned to the parking lot with the child.She said that Warren had been drunk and confirmed he paid her to take the child to a thrift store, the sheriff’s office said.The woman told deputies she didn’t think the grandfather could care for the girl, so she took the child to her camp to get food.The child, who corroborated the account, was not in distress and was medically cleared.According to the sheriff’s office, the child’s aunt had full custody of the girl and had asked the grandfather to watch her because she had to work.The child was allowed to return home to the aunt.Warren was arrested for felony child endangerment and other charges. He is being held at the Sacramento County Main Jail on $75,000 bail and is due in court on May 8.See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app.| More National News | Stormy Daniels called to the stand in Donald Trump’s hush-money case
SACRAMENTO COUNTY, Calif. —
Sacramento deputies arrested a man accused of losing track of his 7-year-old granddaughter after paying a stranger to watch her so he could go to a bar.
Jason Warren, 54, had given the unknown woman $20 to take the girl to a nearby thrift store on Monday, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office said.
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Instead, the woman took the girl to her encampment to get food before being returned unharmed, the sheriff’s office said.
Deputies first responded to the parking lot of The Cinder’s Bar on Auburn Boulevard near Hemlock Street around 7:45 p.m. People who called 911 said Warren had been asking for help, alleging that his granddaughter had been kidnapped for human trafficking, according to the sheriff’s office.
Warren, who was “heavily intoxicated” when deputies made contact with him, said he’d paid an unhoused woman to watch the girl before going into the bar four hours earlier, the sheriff’s office said.
Surveillance footage showed the woman leaving with the child.
The woman later heard PA announcements from the sheriff’s helicopter and returned to the parking lot with the child.
She said that Warren had been drunk and confirmed he paid her to take the child to a thrift store, the sheriff’s office said.
The woman told deputies she didn’t think the grandfather could care for the girl, so she took the child to her camp to get food.
The child, who corroborated the account, was not in distress and was medically cleared.
According to the sheriff’s office, the child’s aunt had full custody of the girl and had asked the grandfather to watch her because she had to work.
The child was allowed to return home to the aunt.
Warren was arrested for felony child endangerment and other charges. He is being held at the Sacramento County Main Jail on $75,000 bail and is due in court on May 8.
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