CANTON, MASS. (WHDH) - An 18-month-old boy was found safe in Pawtucket, R.I. after his father kidnapped him from a daycare in Canton Thursday afternoon, police said.
Police arrested the child’s father in the area of Webster Street in Pawtucket and emergency crews were seen loading the child into an ambulance to be evaluated.
Canton police previously described the incident as a parental kidnapping, saying Nathan Dorosario Sr. took his son, Nathan Dorosario Jr., from a daycare in the area of 1 Wellness Way in Canton. The kidnapping was first reported at around 3 p.m.
SKY7-HD spotted a significant police presence on Wellness Way as emergency crews responded. Police also fanned out through area neighborhoods and communities in an effort to find Dorosario Jr.
The news that Dorosario Jr. had been located came about 90 minutes after the first reports of the kidnapping.
Sources told 7NEWS police found Dorosario Jr. by pinging his father’s phone. Dorosario Jr. was found in his father’s arms in a parking lot on Webster Street.
Surveillance video from the area shows officers pulling up less than a minute after Dorosario Sr. arrived at the parking lot.
“The cops kept telling the guy to put the kid down. He was a little upset, the guy, and the cops were surrounding him,” said witness Krykette Kowalski.
Dorosario Jr. and his mother were reunited at a Rhode Island hospital Thursday afternoon.
Dorosario Sr. is expected to remain in the Pawtucket area overnight ahead of an initial court appearance and extradition hearing in Rhode Island Friday.
“People think in funny ways, like they’re going to get away, these days. You can’t, there’s police everywhere,” said John Comey, who was in the parking lot when the father was arrested.
No further information was immediately available.
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