COLUMBUS, Ohio ( WCMH ) – The vehicle that was part of an Ohio Amber Alert for a 5-year-old boy missing from Columbus has been found outside Cleveland.
Neither the child nor the alleged abductor was inside, but police remain concerned Wednesday morning for the child’s safety.
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The Amber Alert was issued at 5:10 a.m. after Darnell Taylor was taken from his south Columbus home. The Amber Alert noted the abduction took place at around 3:50 a.m., though Columbus police later said it happened shortly after 3 a.m.
The vehicle in the alert description was found about 6 a.m. nearly 150 miles away in Brooklyn, Ohio, south of Cleveland.
Columbus police said the boy’s foster mother, Pammy Maye, 48, took him from a residence in the 900 block of Reeb Avenue, in Columbus’ Edgewood neighborhood. The Amber Alert stated that Maye advised that she had harmed Taylor and fled in the vehicle.
Police located the car near Cleveland after receiving a hit from a license plate reader shortly before 6 a.m. It was found at an apartment complex on Memphis Avenue and towed to a police station in Brooklyn.