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Buffalo woman arrested for abandoning infant son at casino

The woman wanted by Niagara Falls police for abandoning her 10-month-old son at the Seneca Niagara Casino hotel last month has been arrested.

Falls police and members of a U.S. Marshals task force took Sharone Littleton, 28, into custody on Floss Avenue in Buffalo Monday. 

Littleton has been charged with first-degree reckless endangerment and abandonment of a child, both felonies, and child endangerment, a misdemeanor.

Surveillance video showed her leaving the baby in the hotel on Jan. 31 and leaving the premesis with another child.

Littleton was released under the new state bail law, after being arraigned in Niagara Falls City Court. She is due back in court March 13.

Mark Wozniak, WBFO's local All Things Considered host, has been at WBFO since mid-1978.