A 35-year-old man from southern Ontario was arrested in Sault Ste. Marie Wednesday and charged after allegedly luring and abducting a northern Ontario child.
Ontario Provincial Police started the investigation around 7:45 p.m. Tuesday after a nine-year-old boy in Thessalon was approached by a man driving a yellow Camaro and offered a toy and ice cream.
The boy was fishing by himself at the river when the man approached saying he was a real estate agent looking for property in the area, OPP said in a news release.
OPP Const. Phil Young told CTV News in a phone interview he is not sure what exactly was said to get the boy into the car, but someone who knew the family saw what happened and called the parents right away to tell them what happened.
Thessalon is a small town with a population of about 1,260 people and many in the community know each other.
“A yellow Camaro in town sticks out,” Young said.
After receiving the call, Young said the boy’s parents went driving around to look for their son.
They found him shortly after in another area of town inside the man’s car eating an ice cream, he said.
