Grandma Pushes Infant in Stroller While Falling-Down Drunk, Say Tempe Cops

  Tempe police reported today that a woman was arrested on suspicion of child endangerment after witnesess saw her pushing a baby in a stroller while drunk. Perhaps the most interesting part of this story, though, is the woman's name: Fannie Jumbo. According to the Arizona Republic's write-up of a...
By Ray SternApril 9, 2009
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Tempe police reported today that a woman was arrested on suspicion of child endangerment after witnesess saw her pushing a baby in a stroller while drunk.

Perhaps the most interesting part of this story, though, is the woman’s name: Fannie Jumbo.

According to the Arizona Republic’s write-up of a booking slip released by the cops, witnesses saw Jumbo, 61, fall down several times because she was so intoxicated. Jumbo rolled her grandchild across Apache Boulevard and was arrested near McClintock Drive and taken to the city hoosegow.

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Ray Stern is the former news editor of Phoenix New Times. He worked as a newspaper reporter in Arizona for more than two decades. He’s won numerous awards for his reporting, including the Arizona Press Club’s Don Bolles Award for Investigative Journalism.

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