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Idaho dad charged after missing daughters found safe in Nevada

By Associated Press
Published: May 16, 2017, 9:14pm

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho authorities have charged a Boise man with two felonies after they say he checked his two young kids out of school and fled to the Nevada mountains, leaving a burnt-out vehicle and scattered personal belongings along the way, authorities said Tuesday.

Nevada’s Eureka County Sheriff Keith Logan said Joshua Dundon, 29, was being held in Nevada on $5 million bail.

Dundon is charged with two counts of child custodial interference, and Nevada officials said the case is still under investigation in that state by local authorities and the federal Bureau of Land Management.

Dundon’s daughters, Madison, 7, and Jaylynn, 6, were found safe in a mountainous area of Nevada Monday evening. They were treated for exposure and reunited with family members that night.

Dundon and the girl’s mother have been in a dispute over custody of the kids, according to documents filed in court.

The girls were reported missing last weekend, and police said their father had checked them out of their school on May 10, telling acquaintances that the family was going camping.

Monday afternoon, Vera Baumann alerted authorities that a man she believed to be Dundon had walked up to her Nevada ranch, barefoot, cold, sickly and asking for help. Baumann had seen news reports about the missing girls. She said that raised her suspicions when the stranger approached her home.

Baumann’s husband went out to talk to Dundon while she grabbed a shotgun and called 911.

Baumann said Dundon offered the couple several hundred dollars if they would help him, and the girls were nowhere in sight.

Authorities arrived at the ranch a short time later, and the search for the girls began.

Logan later said Dundon tried to give them information about where the girls were located, but was suffering from hypothermia and could not provide detailed directions.

After several hours rescuers found the girls about a mile from the Baumanns’ home.

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