CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A woman is charged with child endangerment after transporting a pool with children in it atop of her vehicle.
The Dixon Police Department received a complaint Tuesday afternoon about an SUV driving north on the Peoria Avenue Bridge "with children inside of a pool, on the roof of the vehicle."
According to police, officers searched the area and found a white Audi Q5 driving westbound on IL Route 2, with a blue inflatable pool on the roof with two juveniles inside of the pool. The officers conducted a traffic stop on River Lane, just south of IL Route 2.
During the investigation, police learned that the driver, Jennifer A. Janus Yeager, 49, of Dixon, Illinois, was driving to a friends' house to inflate the pool, and had her two daughters ride inside of the empty pool to hold it down on their drive home, according to Dixon Police.
In a photo released by police, the pool appears to be larger than the roof of the vehicle.
Yeager was arrested and charged with two counts of child endangerment and two counts of reckless conduct. She was also cited for failure to secure a passenger of the age of 8 and under the age of 16.
She was released after posting bond, police said.
The Dixon Police Department reminds everyone to call the Dixon Police Department at (815)288-4411 or CrimeStoppers at 1-888-Caught-U. (1-888-228-4488) if they are a witness to a crime.