And it costs to be late ... for jail.

 

Jesse Solway, 24, had gotten a break when his three-year sentence was reduced to 364 days stemming from his July 19, 2005, arrest for child abuse and abandonment in Luna County.

But he failed to make arrangements to serve his time in Lordsburg, where he moved after being released on bail last summer, nor did he show up on the appointed day to start his jail sentence at the Luna County Detention Center, the Deming Headlight reported today on its Web site.

A warrant was issued for failure to appear, and Solway was picked up by Hidalgo County sheriff's deputies on Feb. 13, and transferred back to Luna County where last Thursday state District Judge Gary Jeffreys found him in contempt of court and slapped six more months on his sentence.

Solway was originally arrested last summer along with his wife Sandra Lynn Solway, 24, and Betty Jane Moon, 44, when Luna County sheriff's deputies found three children between the ages of 1 and 5 locked outside their house at Solar Acres, soiled and sunburned on a hot afternoon, while the adults remained inside, the Headlight reported.

Sandra Solway, the children's mother, told law officers at the time that she was caring for her sick husband inside the house and sent the children outside for "quiet time," the paper reported.

She is scheduled to be sentenced on Wednesday.

Moon, the children's grandmother, entered into a plea agreement last week in Luna County Magistrate Court, but the Headlight did not report the details.

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