Allegedly high mom in Prosser gets into brief standoff with police with 2 kids in car
A custody dispute turned into a standoff when a mother suspected to be intoxicated held her two children in a car outside a Prosser home.
Marina Ramirez Bucio, 32, showed up at a Bunn Road home in Prosser Friday night and loaded her 8-year-old and 1-year-old into a Subaru, Benton County sheriff’s Lt. Mike Clark told the Tri-City Herald.
A Benton County Sheriff’s Office Facebook post claims Ramirez Bucio was high on narcotics at the time.
She wasn’t supposed to have custody of the children, and their father stopped her from driving away, Clark said. She allegedly rammed his truck and used a rock to smash his window.
Benton County sheriff’s deputies and Prosser police officers arrived quickly and pinned the car in so she couldn’t drive off.
After about half an hour of talking with Ramirez Bucio, she lowered the rear window and let deputies remove the kids from the car, the sheriff’s office said.
Once they were safe, police arrested her, the sheriff’s office said.
No one was hurt.
Ramirez Bucio was booked into the Benton County jail in Kennewick on suspicion of second-degree malicious mischief and obstructing a police officer.
This story was originally published March 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM.