article_snippet.sent: Rick Yoes, 57 (pictured), spent the weekend in jail in an attempt to avoid paying $1,700 in fines related to nearly two decades of code violations for his overgrown lawn .
article_snippet.sent: But Rick Yoes Rick Yoes claims the city didn't do enough to warn A 57-year-old man in Texas about the citations, which officials claim were sent out in the mail.
article_snippet.sent: I can’t really afford to pay a lawyer to fight it,' Rick Yoes told CBS Dallas/Fort Worth. '
article_snippet.sent: Rick Yoes turned Rick Yoes in this weekend and spent two nights in jail before a friend paid Rick Yoes fine to secure Rick Yoes release.
article_snippet.sent: Rick Yoes told the Fresno People's Media that when Rick Yoes father received the warning, her father took off all her father vacation days at work and found a replacement so that her father could serve 17 days in prison rather than pay his fine.
article_snippet.sent: However, Rick Yoes claims Rick Yoes didn't know about the six violations Rick Yoes was confronted with recently.
article_snippet.sent: In an interview with WFAA, Rick Yoes claims Rick Yoes never got any letters from The city of Grand Prairie for the citations. '
article_snippet.sent: But in another interview with CBS, Rick Yoes tells a different story, saying Rick Yoes received any letters from the city for the citations but never opened any letters from the city for the citations because Rick Yoes thought any letters from the city for the citations had to do with another legal matter.
article_snippet.sent: Rick Yoes says Rick Yoes's upset with the system
highlights_snippet.sent: Grand Prairie, Texas officials say Rick Yoes, 57, has refused to respond to two decades worth of code violations for unruly lawn .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: , Rick Yoes reported to jail instead of paying the fine .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Rick Yoes spent two nights in jail before a friend paid the fine and secured Rick Yoes release .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Rick Yoes claims in one interview that Rick Yoes never received the warnings, while in another interview said Rick Yoes ignored the letters .