Let
$U$
be a smooth affine curve over a number field
$K$
with a compactification
$X$
and let
${\mathbb {L}}$
be a rank
$2$
, geometrically irreducible lisse
$\overline {{\mathbb {Q}}}_\ell$
-sheaf on
$U$
with cyclotomic determinant that extends to an integral model, has Frobenius traces all in some fixed number field
$E\subset \overline {\mathbb {Q}}_{\ell }$
, and has bad, infinite reduction at some closed point
$x$
of
$X\setminus U$
. We show that
${\mathbb {L}}$
occurs as a summand of the cohomology of a family of abelian varieties over
$U$
. The argument follows the structure of the proof of a recent theorem of Snowden and Tsimerman, who show that when
$E=\mathbb {Q}$
, then
${\mathbb {L}}$
is isomorphic to the cohomology of an elliptic curve
$E_U\rightarrow U$
.