Nashville woman arrested after Florida police rescue her dog from hot car parked at beach

A Nashville woman was arrested in Florida on Tuesday after she allegedly left her dog inside a hot car while she went to the beach.

Marie Rutherford, 40, was booked into the Pinellas County Jail on an animal cruelty charge after her dog had to be rescued from a hot car in the Pier 60 parking lot at Clearwater Beach, FOX 13 Tampa Bay reported.

Clearwater police officers responded to the parking lot at around 4:45 p.m. on Tuesday after someone reported an animal in distress, the outlet said.