PANAMA CITY BEACH — Police have arrested a Georgia woman who allegedly scattered alcohol containers and kept her 2-year-old in a hot car, according to arrest reports.
Alexis Lynn Finney, 31, was arrested Sunday after residents noticed her and the child inside an SUV outside of an apartment at Sandy Dunes, 8011 Front Beach Road, the Bay County Sheriff’s Office reported.
Officers reported she was intoxicated with her 2-year-old child in the back hatch of the parked SUV. The temperature was about 87 degrees at 3 p.m., and Finney claimed to be broken down, BCSO reported.
Finney was not a resident of the apartments. Witnesses said they smelled a strong odor of alcohol coming from the vehicle and saw the child sweating profusely in the back of the car, officers said. Deputies found several open alcohol containers in the back hatch of the SUV and beside the driver’s seat, and noticed a strong odor of urine emanating from the SUV, according to the reports.
Finney, of Bainbridge, Georgia, was charged with child neglect without great harm. She was being held Monday on a $5,000 bond.