{"id":1340165,"date":"2024-07-20T13:08:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T18:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1340165"},"modified":"2024-07-25T03:40:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T08:40:47","slug":"7-children-found-in-u-haul-mother-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1340165","title":{"rendered":"Woman arrested for transporting children in U-Haul identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/07\/Sawyer-MUG-e1721856773161-200x200.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1341333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/07\/Sawyer-MUG-e1721856773161-200x200.webp 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/07\/Sawyer-MUG-e1721856773161-350x350.webp 350w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/07\/Sawyer-MUG-e1721856773161-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/07\/Sawyer-MUG-e1721856773161.webp 808w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>CHEROKEE COUNTY \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The Cherokee County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office said 42-year-old Katherine Renee Sawyer has been arrested after transporting her children in the cargo area of a U-Haul truck. Sawyer was reportedly driving the truck along with a 3-year-old and a 4-year-old in the cargo area, along with a 17-year-old in the passenger seat. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office said none of them were secured with seat belts or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153restraint devices.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d During the welfare check, deputies discovered several people in the cargo area as well. The Cherokee County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office said the woman driving the U-Haul was the mother of all the occupants. At the time of the welfare check, the temperature inside the cargo area of the U-Haul was at 98.6 degrees and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the children were observed to be sweating profusely.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The mother was arrested for driving without a license. The sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office said the investigation is under investigation and additional charges of injury to a child and injury to a disabled individual are pending. Child Protective Services is reportedly working with the Cherokee County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office to make arrangements for the children and ensure their safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHEROKEE COUNTY \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The Cherokee County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office said 42-year-old Katherine Renee Sawyer has been arrested after transporting her children in the cargo area of a U-Haul truck. Sawyer was reportedly driving the truck along with a 3-year-old and a 4-year-old in the cargo area, along with a 17-year-old in the passenger seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1340177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/07\/Sawyer-MUG-e1721856773161-200x200.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1340165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 19:57:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/07\/Sawyer-MUG-e1721856773161-200x200.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1340165"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1341335,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340165\/revisions\/1341335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1340177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1340165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1340165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1340165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}