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Posted: 4:15 p.m. Friday, June 29, 2012

Police: Woman hits teen, adult relative with car

By Jesse Martinez

LAS CRUCES, N.M. —

Police arrested a woman they said crashed her car into a parked pickup truck, injured a family member and reversed her car to strike another person.

Police responded around 10 p.m. Thursday to the Valley Verde Mobile Home Park, where a teenage girl and woman were hit by a car, police said.

Police said Celia Hernandez was arguing with her estranged husband at a home where family members had gathered. Accordingto police, she then got into her Pontiac Grand Am and drove into the back of a pickup where an adult, 17-year-old girl and 12-month-old girl were sitting on the tailgate. Her car struck the teen and injured her leg, police said.

Hernandez then backed her car and struck another family member and two cars that were parked across the street before she drove to her motel room, according to police.

The teen and woman were taken to a hospital with minor injuries, police said.

Hernandez, 47, was charged with two counts of intentional child abuse, two counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. She was also given traffic citations for driving the car without insurance, having a fake license plate, collision without due care, failing in her duty to give identification and failing to give immediate notice of an accident.

She was booked into the Dona Ana County Detention Center with bail set at $20,000.

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