Scottsdale Parents Of Boy Found Wandering The Streets, Arrested

PARADISE VALLEY, AZ – It was Saturday morning around 9:30 and officers from the Prescott Valley Police Department showed up on West Yavapai Road. They'd been told there was a young boy with a backpack. He appeared to be alone.

The officers found the boy. He is four-year-old Leo Myers.

He told the officers that he was trying to get to his grandmother's house.

There were a couple of problems – he didn't know where she lived. And he didn't know where he lived. (Get Phoenix Patch's daily newsletter and real-time news alerts. Or, find your local Patch here and subscribe)

He did know his mother's name so the officers were able to use records to figure out who Leo's grandmother was.

She came and met the officers, telling them where Leo lived.

Officers arrived at Leo's house where they met Leo's mother, Megan Roe.

Police say that she told officers that she and her boyfriend has been sleeping, that they didn't know Leo had left the house, and that Leo had never left home alone before.

Officers say they determined that the home was not a healthy environment, contacted the state's Department of Child Services who assigned a case worker.

Roe and her boyfriend, Robert Hanson, were both arrested and charged with child abuse and child neglect.

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Photo via Paradise Valley Police.