An 11-year-old reported missing in Iowa was found Monday morning around 360 miles away at an Indiana gas station, police said.
Indiana State Police were contacted at 2 a.m. by a detective from the Iowa City Police Department concerning a child abduction that happened in their city on Sunday, according to a department news release.
The investigator further told the ISP that they believed the suspect was a non-custodial parent of the child, and that she was taking the 11-year-old to the East Coast as they were only “likely traveling through Indiana.”
Police had limited descriptive information, but troopers began searching the interstates, the department said. At 2:39 a.m., a trooper found a grey 1999 Pontiac Grand Pix at a gas station in Indianapolis on Lafayette Road off I-65. Inside the vehicle were the 11-year-old and two adults, according to police.
Ronique Pittman, 36, of Goldsboro, North Carolina, was taken into custody and incarcerated on an Iowa arrest warrant for child abduction by a non-custodial parent, police said.