Claremore, Okla. — Authorities have arrested the grandmother of a 17-year-old Oklahoma boy with special needs who was found alone near a southeast Kansas rest stop.
Rogers County, Oklahoma, authorities say 68-year-old Janie Gill was arrested in that county and booked into jail Monday on one count of child neglect.
More charges are pending.
He had no identification and couldn't speak.
A custodian found the boy Nov. 29 at a rest stop near Beaumont, Kansas.
The Greenwood County, Kansas, sheriff's office later learned his identity and that he was from Oklahoma.
He remains in protective custody.
Greenwood County has put a hold on Gill, pending the serving of an arrest warrant on suspicion of aggravated child endangerment and interference with law enforcement.
KAKE-TV reports the Greenwood authorities said Gill was the boy's grandmother.