Bartholomew County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a local man after they were sent to the 9200 block of Tecumseh Street in Taylorsville about a child crying over a man who was unresponsive in a yard.
At about 1:26 a.m. Saturday, Deputy Teancum Clark found a small child at the Taylorsville address who was crying and screaming, deputies said. Clark picked up the child and moved him away from a male who was found unresponsive in the yard, deputies said.
Clark made several attempts to wake up Raul Velazquez-Gonzalez, 27, 1525 Mill St., Columbus, who was found passed out, deputies said.
Velazquez-Gonzalez woke up groggy and smelling of alcohol and agreed to a breath analyzer test which showed a reading of .210 percent, deputies said. The child was turned over to Child Protective Services and placed in foster care, deputies said.
Velazquez-Gonzalez was arrested on charges of public intoxication and neglect of a dependent, deputies said. He was first taken to Columbus Regional Hospital where he was cleared by medical staff before being taken to the Bartholomew County Jail, deputies said.
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