Police: Dad in Bar, Kids in Car (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma)

The good-time daddy is identified as MICHAEL SPARKS.

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Police: Dad in Bar; Kids in Car
Girl Told Police Father Had Smoked Marijuana
POSTED: 2:12 pm CST November 22, 2011
UPDATED: 3:17 pm CST November 22, 2011

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OKLAHOMA CITY -- Oklahoma City police say a metro man took his daughter and her sister along for a night of drinking and doing drugs.

According to a police report, Michael Sparks, 33, took the children and their mother’s GMC Jimmy sometime during the day on November 13.

The children’s grandmother became worried and started driving around looking for the children. The children's mother called Sparks and though he would not say where he was, she heard Mexican music playing in the background.

Using that information, the grandmother drove to the Rio Bravo Bar at 712 South Walker Ave.

She said she found her daughter's SUV there with the two girls inside.

One of the girls told investigators that her father took them to McDonald's to get something to eat, then to a friend’s house where the girl believed her father smoked marijuana.

After that, they drove to the bar where Sparks left them in the vehicle while he drank beer, according to police.

The girl said her father would occasionally check on them but they were starting to get scared because it was dark outside.

She estimated that they had been at the bar for more than two hours.

Officers said they found Sparks, drunk, inside the bar.

The girls and the vehicle were returned to their mother.

Sparks has been charged with child neglect and two counts of public drunkenness.