Pulling into the station

May 24, 2005

NEWHALL, Calif. - A woman was arrested after the California Highway Patrol officer who pulled her car over found nine people crammed inside, including two children in the trunk.

�I have never heard of this,� said Officer Wendy Hahn. �There was no room left in the car, so she puts two of the kids in the trunk. We�re trying to get people to buckle up, and this is what we find.�

Lavern Dunlap, 35, of Glendora, was pulled over about 8 p.m. Friday after another driver reported seeing a woman closing the trunk of her Toyota Corolla with two children inside as the vehicle sat parked on a shoulder.

Dunlap told the officer she was heading to her sister�s house in Palmdale, about a 60-mile trip.

The officer discovered a 15-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl in the trunk, four children in the back seat, an adult in the front passenger seat with a child on her lap and Dunlap behind the wheel. No one was wearing a seat belt, she said.

Dunlap was booked on suspicion of child cruelty and was released. She is scheduled to appear next month in court.

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Jesus. My mom always joked about shoving us in the trunk if there wasn't enough room, but she never actually did it! This is even more out-there than the article about the man that jumped out of a moving car to get his cigarette that had blown out the window. Is it just me, or are people a lot dumber now than they used to be?

Thank God She's Not MY Mom stopped here at 1:10 p.m.

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