Charlie Yates was born in Redding in 2248 to a relatively impoverished family. His mother was a waitress at one of the few eateries set up in the NCR, whilst his father was an NCR police officer working all around the NCR territory. In this setting, with parents that were often scarce and hardly little money, Yates took to petty thievery, such as pick-pocketing burglary. Eventually, sometime around his 16th birthday, he was caught pilfering crops by a gang of vigilante citizens and was severely injured, before being jailed in a local jail, only being let out after a few days of 'community service', namely helping the Ghoulified inhabitants of Redding and the surrounding farms. It was during this time that Yates began to redeem himself, having developed an acute sense of guilt for his crime