[1]Anthony S. Foxworth Sr. and Mary G. Foxworth are jailed on the East Coast.
By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – The couple who skipped out on their court hearing in which they were to be sentenced for the severe neglect of their teenage son were located yesterday in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Anthony S. Foxworth Sr., 45, and Mary G. Foxworth, 43, were taken into custody based on a no-bail warrant issued in Lewis County Superior Court.
The Foxworths pleaded guilty last month to first-degree criminal mistreatment and failed to appear in court on Wednesday afternoon. They were facing a standard sentencing range of 51 months to 68 months in prison.
Centralia Police Department detective Patty Finch said she got word just before 12:15 p.m. yesterday the couple was in custody.
Officers with the Myrtle Beach Police Department contacted the Foxworths at a motel after spotting their green and gray Chevrolet Suburban in the parking lot. An incident report indicates police there had been contacted by investigators from Centralia who passed along information about the general location where they could be found.
They have been booked into jail and presumably will be extradited back to Lewis County.
The Foxworths had been out of custody since the beginning of the case on unsecured bonds.
When the case was first charged in December of last year, the court files for the two showed they resided on South Tower Avenue in Centralia, but Finch said this week police found their home vacant and that Mary Foxworth had been living in an apartment in Olympia.
Centralia police began investigating in January of last year, after couple took their 16-year-old son to the doctor, and he was hospitalized with severe malnutrition, weighing just 54 pounds.
Prosecutors alleged the boy had not seen a doctor since 2007 and had not been enrolled in school since 2011, yet had two siblings who appeared healthy and presented little concern.
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For background, read “Parents of mistreated Centralia teen are no shows for sentencing hearing” from Wednesday November 1, 2017, here [2]