A 37-year-old mother has been arrested after assaulting her child’s school bus driver after he dropped them off an hour late, police said.
A mother was arrested after she was accused of punching a bus driver four times in the face who brought her children home an hour late, Nevada police told media.
The The 37-year-old mother was detained after the Aug. 17 attack on her children’s school bus driver, police told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. New details of the case recently appeared in news agencies.
The bus driver was about an hour behind schedule, the publication reports. The driver had to stop several times to regain control of the children while returning from school in Henderson.
Observation video obtained by KSNV shows a woman entering a bus and yelling at the driver.
She was arrested on charges of battery on a protected person, child abuse, destruction of property, obstructing a student from attending school and theft of a motor vehicle, KSNV reported.
The Clark County School District did not respond to McClatchy News’ request for comment.
A similar incident happened the next day. On August 18, a man was arrested after he was accused of assaulting another bus driver in Clark County.
The The man was accused of assaulting the bus driver after he refused to take his daughter to school, police told FOX 5. Police told the news outlet that the man punched the driver several times in the face with a closed fist and threw him to the ground.
“There is no excuse for attacking any worker in any workplace,” said Jason Gately, vice president of Teamsters Local 14, the union that represents more than 1,000 Clark County school bus drivers. told the magazine “Review”..
The incidents are not related, reports KSNV.
The Clark County School District is located approximately 6 miles southwest of Las Vegas.