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Three children fall from vehicle; mothers arrested

Two mothers were charged with multiple counts of child endangerment after three toddlers fell out of a moving vehicle Sunday evening on Bruce Street near Owens Avenue, Las Vegas police said.

One-year-old twins were taken to University Medical Center. One of them was in critical condition this morning, and the other was being held for observation.


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  • Another child who fell from the vehicle, a 3-year-old boy, suffered a cut above an eye and was treated and released.

    The incident happened about 5:30 p.m. Sunday.

    The 3-year-old’s mother, Nancy Lopez, 28, was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on seven counts of child endangerment, seven counts of having an unrestrained minor in a vehicle, driving under the influence, driving on a suspended license, having an open container in a vehicle and a headlights violation.

    The twins’ mother, Vanessa Ramirez, 19, was booked on seven counts of child endangerment.

    Lopez was driving the vehicle, which police said was carrying 10 people.

    According to police, Ramirez was aware that her children were in the car with Lopez. It is unknown if Ramirez also was in the car.

    Police spokesman Bill Cassell said that shortly before the children fell out of the car, officers responded to a fight in the area that involved someone in the vehicle.

    Other children in the vehicle were taken to Child Haven, and Child Protective Services was notified, Cassell said.

    Lopez and Ramirez declined media requests for an interview. They are both being held on $7,000 bond.

    Contact reporter Maggie Lillis at mlillis@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0279.

     

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    thirteenburn wrote on November 09, 2009 04:00 PM: Ten people in a car, 25 in a two bedroom apartment, what's the difference, right?

    It's my fervent hope that neither of these ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS get their kids back and are ALL sent back to Mexico where they belong.

    Just looking at the both of them sickens me. Both are higher then Hell on heroin and alchohol, probably up all night turning tricks and robbing johns, which is where they got their money and what the fight was over as well.

    Just another glaring example of why the round up and immediate deportation of ALL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, of course after photographing and fingerprinting - needed so upon the ILLEGAL return, can be incarcerated for no less than 25 years WITHOUT parole, and upon release, are immediately returned to Mexico, where if they return again, LIFE in prison, with the bills for incarcerating the ILLEGALS is gotten from the Mexican government, however that is accomplished.


    laughing at you wrote on November 09, 2009 01:35 PM: WEIRD HOW ALL THE RACIST PEOPLE ARE THE SAME ONES THA DNT SAY NOTHING IN EVERYDAY LIFE JUST BEHIND THE COMPUTER . . HAAHAHAH. . . JUST CONTINUE TO GET YOUR DISABILITY CHECK OR WELFARE CHECK AND SMILE =)..BE HAPPY


    AMERICANTS wrote on November 09, 2009 12:04 PM: ALL YOU FAT LAZY AMERICANTS WANTS US TO GO AWAY?YOU ARE THE PEOPLE THAT ARE GOING AWAY.YOUR WHITE MEN ARE MARRYING ASIAN WOMEN,AND YOUR WHITE WOMEN ARE WITH BLACK MEN.NOT TO MENTION HOW MANY OF YOUR WIVES ARE GETTING PLUGGED BY THE GARDNER AND POOL BOY WHILE YOUR AT WORK.WE AS A LATINO RACE WILL BE THE MAJORITY.YOU CANT GO ANYWHERE WITHOUT SEEING A LATINO.ILLEGAL OR NOT.


    Robert A. Johnson wrote on November 08, 2009 09:25 AM: To all of those of you who are all lathered up about these people looking for work why don't you arrange with ICE to either work for ICE or go pick up illegals and take them to ICE. If your successful you can have the breadwinner deported and his family devestated all at once.
    You might also want to look into the history of our immigration laws.It's a rather shocking read.
    The motto on the Statute of Liberty has been upended by our current immigration law but the illegals seem to have read it and heeded the words anyway. "Give me your tired, your poor,your hungry, ..."


    hahah wrote on November 08, 2009 12:36 AM: 10 packed into a car and 3 fell out? HAHAHAHHHAHA. Stupid is what stupid does. Go back to Mexico! I'm tired of anyone who sympathizes with the illegals just to be politically correct. It is the idiots like you who keep turning a blind eye to this illegal situation that has run the USA to the ground. Look at the education, health, and criminal justice systems' backlogs. STUPID ILLEGALS!


    Illegals = Infestation wrote on November 08, 2009 12:26 AM: Like I've always said in one word:
    COCKROACHES!

    Multiply like crazy and you just can't get rid of them.


    Bob wrote on November 05, 2009 05:56 AM: Cultural Diversity.
    Political Correctness.

    These are the things that are bringing this country down to the lowest level in it's existence.


    Erin wrote on November 05, 2009 05:47 AM: Their nationality IS the issue because it's characteristic of their lifestyle, and it's been shown time and time again. That's why it's the issue.


    Diamond Dave wrote on November 04, 2009 08:31 PM: Back in '97, I wanted nothing more than to be one of the 25,000 or so a month to relocate to Las Vegas. Then, in '05, I changed my mind to want to retire somewhere near Las Vegas. Now, I don't even want to come visit - and I haven't been back since Sept. '08. The undocumented are out of control - just check out the quadruple homicide in Mount Airy, NC - or "Mayberry" from Andy Griffith fame - from last weekend. So many people worked so hard to establish the greatest country on the face of the earth. I weep for what America - and Las Vegas - has become.


    Ancygee wrote on November 04, 2009 12:23 PM: Pack up the women, their baby daddy's and the kids themselves and ship em all back to Mexico where they mostly likely snuck out from.........


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