STANLY COUNTY, N.C. — A Massachusetts man was served with multiple warrants after police found a child who had been abducted from North Carolina, according to the Berlin Police Department in Berlin, Massachusetts.
On June 28, Berlin Police responded to assist the Norwood Police Department out of Stanly County with its search for a missing child. The child was found safely and taken to a hospital to be evaluated, police confirmed.
The suspect, Michael Oliver of Clinton, Massachusetts, was arrested and served with fugitive warrants. He has been charged with human trafficking of a child victim, abduction of a child, and soliciting a child with an electronic device.
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