article_snippet.sent: Jondrew Megil Lachaux (left), 39, an ex-convict and Kellie Cherie Phillips (right), 38, have been arrested on felony charges in the alleged abandonment case of three children in a North Las Vegas home .
article_snippet.sent: Lachaux, an ex-convict, was arrested April 7 and Phillips was arrested April 8 on allegations that Phillips and Lachaux abandoned the teenager and the toddler in a North Las Vegas house and took Phillips and Lachaux other five children to Oakland, California.
article_snippet.sent: Phillips and Lachaux, who are not married, were being held pending court appearances this week on felony charges of child abuse.
article_snippet.sent: Records show that Lachaux served prison time in Nevada from June 2006 to August 2008 on a coercion conviction and that he and Phillips were involved in a legal dispute in Reno's family court until 2010.
highlights_snippet.sent: Jondrew Lachaux, 39, and Kellie Phillips, 38, face child abuse charges .
  