Woman Left Dog In Hot SUV Outside Walmart In Cobb: Police: ICYMI

ACWORTH, GA -- An Acworth mother was arrested after allegedly leaving a dog in a hot SUV outside a store earlier this month, Patch has learned. Although another adult and a number of children were with her, Cameta Hibbert was booked into the Cobb Detention Center, according to news reports.

In the July 11 incident, Coco the Chihuahua's yelping and panting outside the Walmart on Cobb Parkway was seen by a passerby, who waited 20 minutes before calling authorities, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. (To get notified of more local news like this, click here to sign up for the Acworth Patch. Or find your Atlanta-area town here. Or, if you have an iPhone, download the free Patch app.)

The responding officer used a thermometer to take the temperature inside the SUV and found that it registered nearly 170 degrees on the dashboard and 136 on the floorboard where the dog was, the newspaper reports. Hibbert reportedly bonded out of jail Tuesday.

For more on this story, see the AJC.

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