By Associated Press - Thursday, August 28, 2014

SELDEN, N.Y. (AP) - Police on Long Island say a man has been arrested after firefighters removed his 4-year-old daughter from a locked vehicle.

Suffolk County police say they got a 911 call on Wednesday afternoon about a child left in the backseat of a Mercedes Benz in Selden.

Police say the vehicle windows were open about a half-inch and the sleeping child had been there about 15 minutes.



Officers say they found the father in a store.

Juan Pablo Aguilar Varela of Mount Sinai was awaiting arraignment Thursday on a child endangerment charge.

It was not immediately clear who would represent him in court.

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