Cypress mom accused of being drunk, endangering children in hot car

Constance Lois Long, 28, is charged with endangering a child.

  HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A Cypress mother is accused of being passed out drunk with her young children in a hot car.

Court documents show on September 19 Constance Lois Long was found unconscious and seated in the driver's seat of her vehicle parked on private property with the motor running. Her two children, ages 4 years and 18 months old, were in their car seats in the back seat.

A witness was alerted when the 4-year-old honked the horn. Investigators say the child tried to wake Long, but couldn't.

According to court records, the witness observed an open bottle of vodka to be two-thirds empty on the front passenger floor board, as well as a water bottle in the center console with clear liquid one-third full that smelled of alcohol.

The alcohol was within reach of the older child and the car's air conditioner was not running, making the interior very hot, court documents state.

Police say Long was unresponsive and smelled of alcohol that resembled the odor in the vodka bottle. They say she refused a field sobriety test or to provide blood or breath specimen.

She was arrested the same day.

Long, 28, is charged with endangering a child. Bond was set at $2,000.

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Man awaiting trial faces new charge of endangering child

  HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A man already awaiting trial on a charge of aggravated assault of a public servant is facing a new charge of endangering a child.

According to court documents, on January 16 Matthew James Wolski tried to walk out of a Walmart on Fry in west Houston with a shopping cart full of items and made no attempt to pay for them. His 3-year-old child was sitting in the cart as well. Three loss prevention officers confronted Wolski when he then allegedly pushed away the officers, grabbed his child and ran.

Wolski, 22, threw his child into the backseat of his vehicle without properly restraining the child and sped away at a high rate of speed, court documents state.

The case Wolski is awaiting trial for happened in July 2011 when police responded to a report of a man, later identified as Wolski, stalking a woman in her car in the parking lot of a Walmart on Kuykendahl. When deputies arrived and approached Wolski, they say he tried to run over one of them with his car. Deputies fired shots at his car, but he got away.

He eventually crashed into some construction barrels, then ran into the woods and led deputies on a chase. Deputies later found him wounded and dehydrated in the bed of a dump truck.

Since that incident, court records show Wolski was charged with credit card abuse in August 2011. He also was charged with theft for allegedly stealing a cell phone from a person on January 8, 2012. His criminal record goes back further including convictions for indecent exposure, receiving stolen property and drug possession.

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