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.
The 11-year-old was taken to the ISP post in Indianapolis and subsequently given to the Department of Child Services to arrange reunification with the custodial parent.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Missing Iowa 11-year-old found at Indiana gas station: Police
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