MEMPHIS, Tenn. (localmemphis.com) - 
 
 A Memphis grandmother was arraigned Monday, accused of putting her two grandkids in dog kennels and driving them across Memphis. 
 
 Disturbing cell phone video led to the arrest of Leimome Cheeks, who now faces two counts of child endangerment. According to an affidavit, Cheeks drove the kids from Whitehaven to Collierville, then to Downtown Memphis in 95-degree heat. 
 
 According to an affidavit, the two kids ages 7 and 8 told investigators they were put in the kennels because they were told there was not enough room inside of the vehicle. For more than 40 minutes, the kids rode in those kennels. 
 
 A citizen recorded cell phone video that shows Memphis grandmother Leimome Cheeks opening the trunk of her Ford Explorer and letting a child out of dog kennel. That video has now gone viral. 
 
 The incident happened feet away from Graceland. 
 
 The citizen, who does not want to be identified, sent the video to Memphis Police. 
 
 “It's shocking, it really is. I only met her like once maybe twice. She seems like a nice lady. I couldn't see her actually doing that,” said Skylarr Blake, who lives doors down from Cheeks. 
 
 During an interview with investigators, the two kids say Cheeks, their grandmother, told them to get in the kennels because there was not enough room in her vehicle. 
 
 People who live in this Whitehaven community are shocked by the video. 
 
 “It's very sad. Because it feels like hell right here now, it's very hot,” said Nikita Blake who is Cheeks neighbor. 
 
 Local 24 reporter Annette Peagler went to Cheeks home and tried to get a comment from her family, but no one answered the door. 
 
 “I mean it could be an honest mistake. It's a huge mistake, get some help yeah but put her in jail, it's hard to say,” Skylarr Blake said. 
 
 An affidavit states Cheeks admitted to putting the kids in the kennels and drove them from Whitehaven to Collierville then to Downtown Memphis, checking on them periodically. 
 
 “You looking at that video, you see she opened up the cage let the kids out the cage out the trunk of the car, I mean it don't look good,” Blake said. 
 
 Police say the children are okay. 
 
 During Cheeks arraignment Monday, the case was continued. She is set to return to court July 9th. 

 CLOSE Leimome Cheeks, 62,was charged Sunday with two counts of child endangerment after a bystander saw her unlatching two grandchildren from pet kennels. Video courtesy of Eric Dupree 
 
 Buy Photo Leimome Cheeks waits for arraignment in Judge Loyce Lambert-Ryan's court on charges of child endangerment Monday morning. Cheeks is accused of putting her grandchildren in a dog kennel during a car trip. (Photo: Jim Weber/The Commercial Appeal)Buy Photo 
 
 In a surreal scene that could have been choreographed by a Hollywood comedy writer, a woman opens the back of a Ford Explorer and helps a young girl exit — from a small pet kennel where she'd been latched in. 
 
 Only this is no joke. 
 
 The woman in the viral video, Leimome Cheeks, 62, was charged Sunday with two counts of child endangerment after a bystander recorded her letting her two grandchildren out from pet kennels in a vehicle. 
 
 According to police reports, Cheeks drove the kennel-bound kids, an 8-year-old and a 7-year-old, for miles around Memphis on Saturday. 
 
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 "Leimome Cheeks was interviewed and admitted to riding from Whitehaven to Collierville with the children in the kennel,'' a police affidavit says. "Cheeks further advised they also drove downtown, however she checked on the children periodically and later removed them from the kennel and put them in the rear seats of her her vehicle.'' 
 
 According the the affidavit, Cheeks said "there was no room inside the vehicle earlier in the day,'' so she "told them to get inside the kennel.'' 
 
 The report notes the temperature "reached 95 degrees and there were no vents in the rear of the Ford Explorer.'' 
 
 Cheeks posted a $100 bond and was released Sunday. She will be in court Monday for an arraignment hearing on the charges. 
 
 Tennessee Department of Children's Services spokesman Rob Johnson said in an email Monday, "DCS is now involved and investigating," 
 
 The Commercial Appeal has obtained a copy of the video. In it, a girl climbs out of a kennel from the back of Ford Explorer that appears to be parked in front of the Graceland mansion in Whitehaven. 
 
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– The children are OK, according to police, but the same can't be said for Leimome Cheeks. The Tennessee grandmother was arrested this weekend after allegedly driving around the Memphis area on Saturday with two grandkids in dog kennels in the back of her Ford Explorer. Police were alerted by a witness who took video of Cheeks releasing a child from the kennel after having reportedly driven from Whitehaven to Collierville to downtown Memphis—a more than 40-minute drive—on a 95-degree day. There were no AC vents in that part of the car. WATN reports the children, ages 7 and 8, told police their grandmother told them there wasn't room for them in the car. A police affidavit cited by the Commercial Appeal cited a similar statement from Cheeks, who reportedly said "there was no room inside the vehicle earlier in the day." It also states "she checked on the children periodically and later removed them from the kennel and put them in the rear seats of her vehicle.'' She was charged Sunday with two counts of child endangerment. The 62-year-old is out on bond and has a Monday morning court appearance.