NORTH PORT, Fla. ( WWSB /Gray News) – A couple in Florida is facing charges after police said they left a child by himself on the side of Interstate 75 and told him to fend for himself.

Police said the couple also left a bag of handguns and cash with the child, whose age was not disclosed.

According to a probable cause affidavit, North Port police received a call Oct. 1 just before 6 p.m. about a boy seen walking along I-75 about a mile south of Sumter Boulevard.

The responding officer found the boy, who told him he had been in a vehicle with Bradley Leon Guerrero Santos, 36, and Roseanella Mendola Borja, 35, and a sibling.

The boy said that when he got home from school, the couple informed him they were taking a trip. When he returned from walking the family dog, he saw they were fr

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