Metro mother arrested, charged with attempted child abandonment at gas station

A city mother was arrested after witnesses told police she tried to abandon her two children at an Oklahoma City gas station.

After a desperate call to 911, police were able to track her down in a car with her children.

The caller said he saw a visibly intoxicated woman – later identified as Amber Adams – driving away with her children after her alleged attempts to abandon them were thwarted.

Police said the 911 call was made from that gas station parking lot. The caller said Adams got out of her car and “grabbed a baby from her arms” from the passenger side as if it were “a rag doll.”

“They were concerned about the welfare of the children,” said Sergeant Dillon Quirk of the Oklahoma City Police Department.

The caller said Adams “threw the baby to the ground” and then tried to get another child out of her car when her passenger intervened.

After she drove away with her children, police tracked down Adams’ vehicle and stopped her in a Deer Creek neighborhood.

“Ran back to the bedroom and it was like the police surrounded our house,” said resident Brooklynn Childers.

Childers was at home with her boyfriend. “We ran to the first bedroom window and saw probably about ten police cars.

A car was obviously searched,” Childers said.

Adams was arrested. “There was a woman in another car kicking the door and screaming,” Childers said.

According to court documents, during her confrontation, Adams told police that she planned to leave her children at the gas station to have sex with them and that she planned to send the father a tracking device so he could find the children.

“So they can come and pick up the kids,” Quirk said.

According to police, Adams was so drunk that she began hallucinating and claimed her third child had jumped out of the car, which prompted a search.

“From that point on, flashlights were used and there were probably 12 police cars searching the neighborhood – it was about 5 a.m.,” Childers said.

The child was eventually found safe and sound with a family member.

No official charges have yet been filed against Adams.

She was released from prison pending further investigations.

After her release, a post on Adams’ Facebook page said she wanted to sell T-shirts with her mugshot on them for ten dollars.

Adams is reportedly currently on probation in Florida for another child neglect case.