EDGEWATER, Fla. – Two children taken during a “parental abduction” Sunday evening have been found safe, according to the Edgewater Police Department.
Police said they responded around 6:30 p.m. to the 600 block of West Indian River Boulevard after receiving a report that a woman, identified as Emily St. Clair, had taken her two children from their father’s vehicle at a gas station.
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According to the release, St. Clair followed the children’s father to the location and removed the children from the vehicle when he went inside the store before fleeing the scene.
Police said St. Clair is the children’s mother but is prohibited from contacting them under a Department of Children and Families court order. She also has an active felony warrant for drug possession.
The two children, ages 5 and 7, were found safe and reunited with their father, police said. St. Clair was taken into custody in Seminole County.