Man arrested after couple ordered food at drive-through then passed out before collecting it

A South Carolina man is facing a number charges after police said he and a female oompanion passed out in their car at the drive-through of a McDonald’s in Marathon, Florida. The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office say that Kevin Yonson, 28, was behind the wheel of a white Ford with the woman in the passenger seat. They ordered food about 10:30pm on Tuesday but didn’t drive up to the window to pay to get their meal. So a McDonald’s employee went outside to find out what was going on and saw them asleep in the car, still at the ordering speaker.

He called the Monroe Sheriff’s Office. Deputy Christopher Schwartz wrote in his report that when he approached the car, he saw the “female asleep, mouth open, with drool coming down her face.” He tried to wake her but she “continued to sit with her eyes closed.” She finally woke up and “looked at me as if she had no idea where she was.” She then shook Yonson awake. Schwartz told her stand behind the car; by that time, Deputy Garrett Bragg already had Yonson at the back of the car. Both smelled of alcohol, Schwartz wrote.



Bragg asked Yonson to go through a field sobriety test. At first he agreed, then decided not to. He got combative and was yelling, Schwartz wrote. The deputy wrote that Yonson resisted being handcuffed. At one point, Bragg and Sgt. Nick Whiteman “grabbed” Yonson and “secured” him against the car. Schwartz then tried walking him to his cruiser but Yonson “lost his balance and stated I pushed him over.” After a minor scuffle, the police got Yonson into Schwartz’s cruiser. It turns out that Yonson isn’t who he told police he was. He didn’t have a driver’s licence and initially gave his last name as Johnson, then admitted to who he really is.

Yonson is a registered sex offender in West Virginia stemming from a Feb. 9, 2015, conviction there. He hadn’t registered in Monroe as a sex offender, as required by law. He also has three drunk-driving convictions in South Carolina, one in 2008 and two last year. The woman was taken back to her hotel. Yonson, however, was booked into the county jail, where he remains on $25,000 bond, charged with felony driving under the influence (fourth or subsequent offence), failing to register as a sex offender, resisting arrest, driving with a suspended licence, battery on a law officer and giving false information to a police officer. He is scheduled to appear before Acting Circuit Court Judge Ruth Becker in Marathon on Oct. 27.