Jorge “JoJo” Morales, a 6-year-old boy missing from Florida since August, has been found safe nearly 2,000 miles away in Canada, and his father and paternal grandmother have been taken into custody, police said
As a result the child's father Jorge Gabriel Morales, 45, and grandmother Lilliam Pena Morales, 68, were arrested"without incident" and taken into custody by the RCMP, police said.
NBC News has reached out to police regarding whether the pair will be extradited and what charges they face. she had been living a nightmare for the past two months and she received a call from the FBI sharing the good news her child was found safe.She explained that after her child didn’t come back home in August she went to her ex-husband’s place to pick him up and found it empty.
“Everything was gone. Everything was gone from his apartment,” she said to the station. “His phones were off. His mom’s phone was off.”“I am glad my son is not aware of what is going on because this is a trauma. I got to speak to him and I told him I was waiting for you to come back from vacation baby! He was just like yes momma,” she said.
The search for the boy involved the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and a slew of other agencies.Miami-Dade Police Director Freddy Ramirez said: “This is another example how local, state, federal and international law enforcement, along with the United States and State Attorney’s Office coming together for the safety of a child and will continue to work together to fight the greater evil.
CORRECTION : A previous version of this article misstated the relationship of Lilliam Pena Morales to Jorge “JoJo” Morales. She is his paternal grandmother, not his maternal grandmother.
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