Crime & Safety

Updated: Sleeping Child Who Was Abducted in Car Found

A 5-year-old boy was abducted in Park Ridge.

Updated 3:10 p.m.

Skokie police found the missing child and car, according to a press release from the Park Ridge Police Department at about 2:15 p.m. The child was not harmed.

Updated 2:45 p.m.:


ABC7 reports that the boy has been found, though police are not releasing details of how he was found.

Original story: 

Park Ridge police are searching for a 2012 Audi Q5 that was stolen at 12:20 p.m. and had a sleeping child in the back seat.

The car was in front of a home in the 1700 block of Good Avenue in Park Ridge when the car was taken. The child, Drake Whitker, is 5 years old, 3 feet tall and 38 pounds. The boy has blonde hair and green/blue eyes. He was wearing a black Polo coat.

Police said the vehicle and child were taken by a male black in his late teens or early twenties and were last seen southbound on Good Avenue headed toward Northwest Highway.

Anyone with information related to this vehicle should call the Park Ridge Police Department at 847-318-5252.


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