A court affidavit provides some description of the alleged child neglect involved in a Grundy County probe stemming from a confrontation between Department of Children’s Services workers, a man with a gun and the child’s father.
The father, Ernest Newbern, 58, of Florida, is charged with neglect of a child under 8 years old, according to the Grundy County Sheriff’s Office. The other man with the gun, Anthony Warren Wiseman, 68, was charged with resisting arrest. Wiseman remains at the Grundy County Jail on an unspecified bond while Newbern, for whom a working phone number could not be found, was released on his own recognizance.
Neither man has an attorney on record, according to court officials.
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