1-year-old who was abducted in a Philadelphia car theft is found
The child was found after a two-hour search.
A car theft in the city’s Strawberry Mansion section led police on a two-hour hunt Saturday night for a 1-year-old who was in a car seat in the rear of the vehicle when it was taken.
Police said a mother on the 2400 block of North 33rd Street was warming up her car, ferrying two children, ages 4 and 1, and other items from her home to her vehicle shortly after 7 p.m. As she briefly returned to her home, someone who police believe may have been an opportunistic thief hopped into the idling neon blue 2014 Mitsubishi Mirage and sped away.
The 4-year-old was put out of the car by the suspect shortly afterward near 33rd and Huntingdon Streets and found by police officers. He was taken to St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, but no injuries were reported.
Pennsylvania State Police issued an Amber Alert for the missing 1-year-old shortly before 9 p.m.
About two hours after the theft, both the 1-year-old and the missing car were spotted by a medic unit near 28th and Huntingdon Streets. No injuries were reported.
Police were still searching for a suspect.