A driver who struck a car carrying a 7-year-old boy on Thanksgiving Day in the Bronx has been arrested, police said Saturday.
Police said Mohamed Sako faces a long list of charges including auto theft, kidnapping, robbery, false imprisonment and child abandonment.
Police say the family's nightmare began Thursday when the child's father parked his Acura RDX on Mack Donough Place in the Country Club section of the Bronx and took the 2-year-old child inside the house. It is said that
According to police, when she returned to pick up her 7-year-old son shortly after, she saw an unknown man drive away with her son inside.
Police used the child's mother's cell phone and tracked the car using the Acura app.
While police were searching for the stolen vehicle and the boy, they received word of an accident involving a vehicle matching the Acura's description.
Police officials said a witness called police after seeing the boy standing outside the Acura crying.
Police said Sakho, 22, was arrested Friday across the street at 250 Baychester Street on an unrelated robbery charge.
According to police, the man is suspected of forcibly taking a bag from a 42-year-old man.
Police sources said Saco had been arrested once before, in April, for criminal possession of a loaded weapon.
He was awaiting arraignment Saturday afternoon.
