A 26-year-old Odessa man was arrested and charged with abandonment of a child after police reported they found a 1-year-old asleep in the back of his truck while he was at a nightclub.

Christopher M. George, no address, was released Saturday from the Ector County Detention Center on a $7,500 bond.

Early Saturday morning, police arrived at a club in the 2000 block of East Eighth Street after reports of an unattended child were called in, Odessa police spokeswoman Cpl. Sherrie Carruth said. In the parking lot, police found a child in the back of a pickup up with no covers and the windows slightly rolled down, Carruth said.

While police attended to the child, George walked to his vehicle and police reported they could smell alcohol on George’s breath, Carruth said.

George was arrested and the child was released to a relative, Carruth said.

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