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Illinois 5-year-old found after carjacking and Amber Alert

Two hours after he was reportedly taken in a carjacking, a five-year-old boy from Park Ridge, Illinois was found.
Drake Whitker
Illinois 5-year-old found after carjacking and Amber Alert

Two hours after he was reportedly taken in a carjacking, a five-year-old boy from Park Ridge, Illinois was found.

Five-year-old Drake Whitker was asleep in the back seat of a white, 2012 Audi Q5 with Illinois license plate R843615.  The car was taken just before 12:30 p.m. Thursday, February 20, 2014 from in front of a home in the 1700 block of Good.  The car was last seen southbound on Good Avenue, heading toward Northwest Highway.

Just before 2:30 p.m., police said the boy had been found, in the stolen car, in a residential neighborhood in Skokie.

The suspect was described as a black man in his late teens or early twenties, who had an afro and was wearing a blue jacket and jeans.

Illinois 5-year-old found after carjacking and Amber Alert

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