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Haynes allegedly called police from a home on Sturgeon Street where she told officers her children were supposed to be staying the night with their grandparents but they weren’t there. Haynes told officers she was intoxicated, the report says.
She told police she knocked on the front and back doors but no one answered. She allegedly then entered the home through a window, hoping to find her children asleep. When she couldn’t find them, she called 9-1-1 from the land line at the home, the report says.
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One of the grandparents spoke to police and said they were out of town with the children.
Police later received a call from the Champaign County Sheriff’s Office about a stolen SUV, the same one Haynes allegedly was sitting in when police responded to the house on Sturgeon Street. Haynes allegedly told officers she took the car without permission from her “incoherent friend” and drove it from Urbana to Springfield.
She reportedly planned to pick up her children and drive them back to Urbana with her, the report says. The owner declined to press charges.
Haynes was placed in the Clark County Jail. She’s expected to appear in the Clark County Municipal Court this morning.
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