Twenty-six-year-old Jesse Lucas Abner of Knoxville was charged with child endangerment and operating while intoxicated after police found his son walking along Highway 14 on Tuesday night.
At about 7:20 p.m., Marion County sheriff’s deputies and Monroe police were alerted to a report of a child walking alone along the highway in the cold. When officers found the 6-year-old boy, he told them his father was at the south Casey’s in Monroe.
According to police records, police found Abner intoxicated. He is charged with child endangerment and operating while intoxicated and cited for open container.
The Jasper County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that Abner arrived at the Jasper County Jail at 8:03 p.m. Tuesday and posted bond for $1,000 Wednesday morning.