WARREN, Ohio- The search is over this morning for a missing 2-year-old boy.
Responding to an amber alert, A an off-duty Warren Police officer located Michael Babuka around 5:30 a.m. Police say the toddler was inside of a car that was parked beside outside a home on Tod Avenue in Lordstown.
One person is under arrest.
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Police say Babuka’s father had left his son in the car for a brief moment to pick up his daughter while on John Street in Niles Thursday evening. During this time, an unidentified man, confirmed to be intoxicated at the time, walked by the area, saw the car was still on and got into the vehicle.
The man did not realize a 2-year-old was in the backseat of the vehicle.
Police say when the man discovered there was a child in the car he had stolen, he drove away from the area in a panic, in an effort to lose police.
Eventually, an off-duty officer caught on the trail of the car jacker, followed him into Lordstown and recovered Babuka.
The suspect immediately surrendered peacefully. Babuka was sent to the hospital for observation.
