The driving force who swiped a automotive with a 7-year-old boy in it on Thanksgiving within the Bronx was arrested Saturday, cops stated.
Mohamed Sakho was hit with a protracted record of costs, together with automotive theft, kidnapping, theft, illegal imprisonment and abandonment of a kid, police stated.
The household’s nightmare started because the youngster’s father parked his Acura RDX on Mac Donough Place within the Nation Membership part of the Bronx on Thursday and took his 2-year-old contained in the household’s residence, cops stated.
When he returned moments later to get his 7-year-old, he noticed a stranger drive off together with his son nonetheless inside, cops stated.
Police used the kid’s mother’s cellphone to trace the automotive on the Acura app.
As police hunted for the stolen automotive and boy, they bought phrase of an accident involving a car that matched the Acura’s description.
A witness referred to as cops after discovering the boy standing outdoors the Acura crying, a police supply stated.
Sakho, 22, was picked up Friday for an unrelated theft throughout from 250 Baychester Ave., police stated.
He allegedly forcibly eliminated a bag from a 42-year-old man, in keeping with cops.
Sakho has one prior arrest for prison possession of a loaded weapon in April, police sources stated.
He was awaiting arraignment Saturday afternoon.
