STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (AP) - A 1-year-old girl who was in an SUV when it was stolen has been found safe after an hours-long search for her, authorities said.
The girl - Royalty Grisby - has been returned to her mother, DeKalb County police said shortly before 4 p.m. Thursday.
Officers spent much of Thursday searching for the child in the Stone Mountain area, just east of Atlanta.
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Two suspects stole the vehicle with Royalty inside around 2 a.m. Thursday in Stone Mountain, police said. Royalty was in the back seat when her mother got out to deliver food to a home and left the vehicle running, DeKalb County police Capt. Brian DeLoach told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Officers found the vehicle hours later in a nearby neighborhood, but Royalty wasn’t inside it.
A 14-year-old suspect was taken into custody later Thursday afternoon, police said, as officers continued their search for the child.
A Levi’s Call - Georgia’s version of an Amber Alert - had been issued and broadcast for much of the day as law officers across Georgia searched for the girl.
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