Kidnapped Utah child found in Nebraska with Arizona man

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (KSNB) – An Amber Alert issued Tuesday for a lacking 13-year-old boy from Utah was canceled Wednesday morning after the boy was discovered protected in Nebraska.

The Arizona man discovered with the boy is within the Corridor County Jail, dealing with a felony kidnapping and a resisting arrest cost.

Grand Island Police arrested Tadashi Kojima, 26, after officers responded to a report of a suspicious car at a gasoline station simply earlier than 2 a.m.

Officers discovered a toddler and grownup sitting inside a white Toyota Avalon on the Git N Cut up close to the Grand Island Regional Medical Middle.

Officers had been suggested that the boy was an kidnapped little one from Utah who was probably with a stranger he met on the web.

GIPD stated the suspect resisted officers after they began putting him in handcuffs.

In keeping with the arrest affidavit, the boy’s father informed police in Layton, Utah that his son had been speaking with somebody whereas taking part in Roblox after which was invited to speak on a chatroom service.

Courtroom paperwork stated on Monday, the teenager went lacking, believed to be with the suspect that he had been speaking to on-line in addition to by texts and Facetime.

The affidavit states that the 2 had organized to fulfill and that Kojima picked up the boy in his automobile.

A number of cellphone quantity PING’s, warrants and emergency disclosures had been made concerning the pair. Ultimately, he was positioned in Grand Island because of a involved particular person.

Kojima additionally has aliases as Aaron Zeman and Hunter Fox.

Corridor County Courtroom Choose set bond at ten % of $1 million.

His subsequent courtroom date is Jan. 30 at 2 p.m. for a preliminary listening to.

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