Leslie Quinones was arrested early Friday and was expected to appear in bond court later in the day, authorities said.

The case began around 12:12 a.m. when deputies responded to a report of a violent dispute between a man and a woman in the 900 block of Northwest 81st Street. Deputies could not locate the caller or hear any disturbance coming from the trailer named in the initial report, the report states.

While approaching the property, a deputy saw a fence behind one of the trailers shaking as if someone had jumped over it but saw no one. The deputy then approached a neighboring trailer and noticed a large amount of trash and small, open bottles of alcohol outside. The front door was slightly ajar and unsecured.

After knocking and announcing his presence without a response, the deputy opened the door and found three children sleeping inside without adult supervision, according to the report. One child was asleep on a bed wearing a school uniform, another was sleeping in a soiled diaper, and a third lay on the floor wrapped in a blanket.

Inside, the deputy described the home as being in complete disarray, with garbage scattered throughout and making it somewhat difficult to walk. Moldy food sat on a bed near one of the sleeping children, and the bathroom toilet was filled with wastewater visible from the front door. The trailer appeared to have no electricity, running water or air conditioning.

Investigators later learned the electricity had been disconnected because Quinones was two months behind on rent, the report states.

A deputy woke the oldest of the three children and gathered information about the siblings and their mother. Deputies spent about 40 minutes making phone calls and contacting the Department of Children and Families before a woman matching the description from the original disturbance call arrived with another child. She was identified as Quinones.

According to the report, Quinones initially avoided questions about what had happened. She eventually told deputies she had argued with her boyfriend and left to visit a friend's house, leaving him at the trailer with the children. Deputies said no adult was present when the three children were found.

DCF responded to the property to investigate the children's living conditions and determined that the lack of water, adequate food and habitable living space supported concerns of child neglect, according to the report. The agency took custody of all four children.

At DCF's request, the children were transported to Jackson North Medical Center for a well-being evaluation. The arrest report does not specify the children's ages or provide additional information about their medical conditions.

The arrest highlights the precarious conditions some families face in Miami-Dade's tight and costly housing market, where rent burdens and utility shutoffs can push households into unsafe living situations. Child-welfare advocates have long argued that neglect cases are often intertwined with poverty and housing instability, and that early intervention and rental assistance can prevent crises from reaching the point of arrest and family separation.

Quinones remained jailed as of Friday afternoon.