When a Cotati California police officer stopped a speeding car last Saturday, the officer, Jason Yarnell, probably had no idea what was about to unfold. The driver, Teane Marie Rhoades, who was on probation for a DUI conviction she got from a 2008 arrest, appeared to be under the influence.

Nothing unusual about that scenario, as people on probation for drunk driving are re-arrested on similar charges all the time.

What sets this case apart is what Rhoades next told Officer Yarnell.

Perhaps as an attempt to gain sympathy and avoid the DUI arrest, or perhaps to alert the officers to her unattended 2 year old grandson, Rhoades told the officer that she had left her toddler grandson at home alone.

According to the pressdemocrat.com, officers went to the home to check on the boy. The boy was asleep. A gas oven had been left on with the door open. Rhoades was arrested for both DUI and felony child endangerment, and is being held in jail, unable to post the $50,000 bail.