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Jonathan Carlton (Monticello Police Department).
In a shoplifting strategy connected Saturday afternoon, a begetter enactment Walmart merchandise wrong a buying cart and near his teenage lad each unsocial to sneak it retired of the store, according to the Monticello Police Department successful Kentucky. It didn’t work, officers said.
Jonathan Carlton, 32, is charged with abandonment of a minor, unlawful transactions with a minor, and endangering the payment of a minor.
Officers assertion that a store defender caught the child. Cops got the call, and an officer, identified by the section arsenic Major Josh Asberry, recovered the big Carlton adjacent astatine the Cumberland Crossing Center, constabulary say.
“Carlton was located adjacent successful the Cumberland Crossing Center by Major Asberry and taken into custody,” cops wrote connected Facebook. “He was processed and lodged successful the Wayne County Detention Center.”
Police wrote successful an affidavit viewed by Law&Crime, “[The boy] was stopped attempting to propulsion the cart past each the points of purchase. During the probe [the son] stated his begetter enactment him up to pushing the worldly retired and his begetter near him there.”
The stepmother was outside, and said that her hubby stepped retired of the store, and made her permission the area, cops claim. She allegedly said she drove to the Monticello Motel, wherever they were staying. Neither of them contacted instrumentality enforcement regarding the boy, according to officers.
“At nary constituent did Jonathan Carlton oregon [the stepmother] interaction instrumentality enforcement successful regards to the [son],” constabulary wrote.
Officers did not denote charges against the stepmother. Her sanction does not look successful Kentucky authorities tribunal records.
“The probe is ongoing is connected going with CPS involvement,” cops said.
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