A lost 11-year-old from Iowa was found at a gas station in Indiana on Monday morning, about 360 miles away.
A detective from the Iowa City Police Department called the Indiana State Police at 2 a.m. to report a child abduction that happened in their city on Sunday, according to a news statement from the department.
The police officer also told the ISP that they thought the suspect was the child’s non-custodial mom and that she was taking the 11-year-old to the East Coast since they were “likely traveling through Indiana.”
The police only had a few details to go on, but the department said that troopers started searching the interstates. A policeman found a gray 1999 Pontiac Grand Pix at a gas station in Indianapolis at 2:39 a.m. on Lafayette Road, which is off of I-65. Police say that the 11-year-old and two adults were inside the car.
Police said that Ronique Pittman, 36, of Goldsboro, North Carolina, was arrested and put in jail on an Iowa warrant for child kidnapping by a non-custodial parent.
The 11-year-old was taken to the ISP post in Indianapolis and then given to the Department of Child Services to help connect the child with the parent who has custody.
Source: Missing Iowa 11-year-old found at Indiana gas station: Police
