York County father turns in recently released from jail son for stolen tools

A 47-year-old Rock Hill man remains in jail under a $2,000 bond on charges of receiving stolen goods after his father told police that the son who was out of jail less than a week tried to get him to help sell stolen tools, according to a police report.

Frederick Edwin Barnes was arrested after his father flagged down a passing deputy to report that the son, released from jail six days earlier, asked the father to help him sell the tools. But the father, telling police that his son was unemployed and just released so had neither money for tools or a job to buy tools, contacted police instead.

As deputies were looking at the tools with the father, Barnes and another man arrived on the scene and Barnes tried to sell that man the tools. Deputies detained Barnes because he was “grossly intoxicated,” the report states.

Barnes then gave police false names, police said.

Later, both Barnes and another man gave conflicting reports about how the tools were stolen from a construction business, as each blamed the other, the report states.

This story was originally published April 11, 2015 at 3:51 PM with the headline "York County father turns in recently released from jail son for stolen tools."