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Updated: 6:53 a.m. Thursday, May 10, 2012 | Posted: 6:50 a.m. Thursday, May 10, 2012

Juvenile sought in Huber Heights child-taking

By J. Frazier Smith, Rich Wilson

Staff Writers

HUBER HEIGHTS, Montgomery County — A juvenile female who drove off in a vehicle with two children Wednesday afternoon and left them alone in it minutes later was still being sought for questioning about her role in the incident.

A male also involved in the incident was in custody Wednesday night on a charge of domestic violence, Huber Heights police said. He was not identified by name because he had not been formally charged.

According to police, a domestic disturbance at Brandt Pike and Kitridge Road at about 3:07 p.m. led to what was first believed to be a child abduction from Tom Cloud Park, 4707 Brandt Pike.

During the disturbance, an adult female arrived in a white Dodge Durango with her 9-month-old and 8-year-old children. She got out of the vehicle to confront a man who was driving another car in which the wanted juvenile female named “Africa” was a passenger, police said.

The disturbance involved an argument over ownership of the vehicle the man was driving. He tried to drive off when Africa got out of the vehicle. It was at that point the mother of the children jumped into the man’s car, leaving her children in the Durango at the intersection.

The man drove to Cloud Park, parked and fled. The mother of the children stayed with the car until police arrived.

Police said that’s when Africa drove off in the Durango, with the children still inside. Police were about to issue an AMBER alert but were stopped short when Dayton police located the vehicle, with the children still inside, just after 4 p.m., parked in the 2000 block of Hawthorn Street in Dayton.

The people who live at the address are related to the children, police said. The children were unharmed and Africa was gone.

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