Subway mother arrested and accused of trying to abandon children at gas station

A metro mother was arrested after witnesses told police she tried to abandon her two children at a gas station in Oklahoma City.

Police found her, in a car with her children, following a desperate 911 call.

The caller said he saw a visibly intoxicated woman, later identified as Amber Adams, leave with her children after her alleged attempts to abandon them were thwarted.

Police said the 911 call was made from the parking lot of that gas station. The caller said Adams got out of her car and, from the passenger side, “grabbed a baby by the arm” as if he “was a rag doll.”

“They were concerned about the welfare of the children,” said Sgt. Dillon Quirk of the Oklahoma City Police Department.

The caller said Adams “threw the baby to the ground” then attempted to retrieve another child from his car when his passenger intervened.

After driving away with her children, police found Adam's vehicle and arrested her in a Deer Creek neighborhood.

“I went back to the bedroom and it was like cops were surrounding our house,” resident Brooklynn Childers said.

Childers was at home with her boyfriend. “We ran to the first bedroom window and saw probably about 10 police cars.

There was clearly a car searched,” Childers said.

Adams was arrested. “A woman in another car was kicking and screaming at the door,” Childers said.

When confronted by police, court documents show Adams told officers she planned to leave her children at the gas station so she could have sex and that she had the intend to send their father a pin finder so he can find them.

“So they could come and get the kids,” Quirk said.

Police said Adams was so drunk she began hallucinating and claimed her third child jumped out of the car, prompting a search.

“From that point on, flashlights came out and probably 12 police cars were searching the neighborhood — it was like five in the morning,” Childers said.

The child was eventually found safe with a family member.

Adams has not yet been formally charged.

She was released from prison pending further investigation.

After her release, a post on Adams' Facebook page said she planned to sell t-shirts with her photo for ten dollars.

Reports show Adams is currently on probation in Florida for an unrelated case of child neglect.