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SALT LAKE CITY — A man accused of leaving his teenage son at a gas station in Nephi because he gave him wrong directions to a marijuana store was charged on Monday.
Mark Yates, 49, of North Fairfield, Ohio, was charged in Juab County’s 4th District Court with child abandonment, a third-degree felony.
On Nov. 3, sheriff’s deputies were called to a gas station on a report of a 13-year-old boy wearing only shorts and a T-shirt, and who did not have shoes or a jacket, who was alone and crying, according to charging documents.
“The boy stated his father had left him at a gas station and drove away. He said that he was upset with him because he gave him the wrong directions to a marijuana shop, and his dad said that he ‘needed a break’ from the boy,” the charges state.
Yates was arrested by another agency after being stopped on I-15 near Spanish Fork.
According to a police affidavit, Yates’ son told deputies that he and his father have been living in a van and hotels, going from state to state, and have lived in 10 or 11 states over the past five years. The boy did not tell police his father’s name because he didn’t want to get him in trouble, the affidavit states.
“I called the mother who was very upset, and said that she would come get him but it would take her a couple days since she lives in Louisiana. I told her that her son would be placed in state custody if we could not locate the father or a family member,” an officer wrote in the report.
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