SALINAS, Calif- A woman has been arrested after police said that she was involved in a DUI accident with her baby in the car.

Monica Moreno got into the accident Monday afternoon on the 800 block N. Madeira Avenue, said police. Witnesses told police that the driver ran from the scene with a baby in her arms. Both the woman and her baby were bleeding from the face.

Police said that Moreno was speeding down the street when she ran into a parked car. They were able to identify Moreno as the driver based on paperwork that was left behind.

Police received several tips to Moreno's location and she was detained a short time later on the 900 block of Rider Avenue. According to police she has a blood alcohol level of .09 more than two hours after the collision.

The baby was taken to the hospital for head and neck injuries.

Moreno was charged with Felony DUI, Felony Hit and Run, and Child Endangerment.

Dear Jon - Why don't police here on the central coast use the same counter-insurgency tactics against gangs like the ones featured on 60 Minutes on Sunday?  Jacqueline....

Any of us who saw that segment on 60 Minutes saw former Green Berets, now Massachusetts State Troopers taking their special military training and wooing community members to be their eyes and ears. The results have been a more manageable gang crime problem.

I took this question to central coast police, Salinas and Santa Maria, known for their gang issues.

In Salinas, Officer Miguel Cabrera tells me their department believes in community policing, which is basically what was being done in North Springfield, Massachusetts, they do it that in Hebron heights neighborhood of Salinas. Doing more policing simply boils down to having more money to beef up their gang units. The department has gone through major cutbacks in officers impacting their gang task force and gang suppression units.

Castroville, Calif.- A reminder that the second in a series of community meetings on preventing gang violence in Monterey County will take place today, Wednesday, May 8th at 6:00 p.m. at the Japanese School House in Castroville, 11199 Geil Street.  

A community meeting for Salinas area residents will take place the next evening, May 9th, at 6:00 p.m.