CONCORD, N.C. — The Concord Police Department confirmed two missing boys who were believed to be with their father were found safe in Missouri Monday morning.
The 8-year-old and 11-year-old brothers were reported missing on Saturday evening after officers responded to a kidnapping call along Wilshire Avenue Southwest.
Police were told the brothers were taken from a neighbor’s yard where they were playing and put into a white vehicle by a Black male adult, who witnesses believed to be their father 35-year-old Aaron Eugene Toliver.
Authorities believed Toliver was en route to Texas or Florida, where family members live, however, the boys were eventually found safe at 8:35 a.m. Monday at the Super 8 hotel on US 1301 Highway 136 West in Rock Port, Missouri.
Toliver was taken into custody, and once he returns to North Carolina, authorities plan to charge him with misdemeanor domestic violation protection order and felony abduction by a parent.
Missouri Child Protective Services has both brothers and plans are being made to quickly reunite the boys with their grandmother.
The Concord Police Department thanked the public, as well as the United States Secret Service, the U.S. Marshals Service, the Missouri State Highway Patrol and the Atchison County Sheriff's Office for their help finding the boys.
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