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Dad drinks in bar, leaves kid in car

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It's after midnight police arrived to find the boys still inside the car.

He tells police.

He had been there for a little over two hours that his dad was inside a nearby bar.

And that he really needed d.'s arrest him when he was scared.

He tells police his father's name so in they go looking for 46 year old Jose Ramon Hernandez.

There are no more than a handful of patrons inside -- police asked for the man they're looking for noticed no one volunteers.

Until he is the last one to be -- And the father admitted that -- that was his his son now on the car and he.

Been there longer than he should have -- he admitted that it wasn't right for him to have left the boy out there.

But he also said the boy wasn't out there for very long it was just a couple of hours.

However the woman who called police to report the incident told -- she first noticed the -- crying in the car five hours earlier around seven.

He had the objectives entomology of some alcohol impairment -- alcohol intoxication.

And he was detained.

Police searched the father before taking him in it found another problem.

In his pocket.

Was -- powdery white substance and it's gonna take the lab actually tell us what it is his admissions.

Of what it was.

We'll need to be verified by the -- He was taken to jail.

Because no other family members could be reached the boy was released into protective custody at the county's Polanski children said.