A mother in Florida has been arrested after authorities say her 5-year-old child was found wandering around the street alone at night while she was out shopping for a new phone at Target .

Maureen Elizabeth O'Neill, 37, was taken into custody on Thursday and charged with one count of child neglect without great bodily harm, authorities announced .

According to the Walton County, Florida Sheriff's Office, deputies on the night of Thursday, Oct. 16, responded to a home on North Gulf Drive in Santa Rosa Beach after a concerned citizen called 911 and told the dispatcher he was with a young boy who had just been brought to his apartment after being found "alone in the roadway" by an "older couple."

The caller said he knew the boy was the child of his neighbor, Elizabeth O'Neill, police say.

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