The driver involved in the incident where a car with a 7-year-old boy inside was stolen on Thanksgiving in the Bronx has been arrested, according to police.
Mohamed Sakho faces multiple charges, including car theft, kidnapping, robbery, unlawful imprisonment, and abandonment of a child, as per law enforcement officials.
The unsettling situation began when the father parked his Acura RDX on Mac Donough Place in the Country Club section of the Bronx on Thursday and briefly went inside the family’s residence with his 2-year-old child, the police reported.
Upon his return to the vehicle moments later to retrieve his 7-year-old child, the father witnessed a stranger driving off with his son still inside, according to the authorities.
Using the child’s mother’s phone, the police were able to track the car via the Acura app.
While law enforcement searched for the stolen car and the child, they received reports of a collision involving a vehicle matching the description of the Acura.
A witness alerted the police after finding the boy outside the Acura, crying, as per a police source.
Sakho, aged 22, was apprehended on Friday for an unrelated robbery incident near 250 Baychester Ave., the police disclosed.
He allegedly forcefully took a bag from a 42-year-old man, according to the authorities.
Police sources indicated that Sakho had a previous arrest in April for criminal possession of a loaded weapon.
He was awaiting his arraignment on Saturday afternoon.
