According to a press release from the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office, a six year old boy has been found, along with the man suspected of taking a car with the boy inside. The release says 6-year-old Rahmir Brown and Sammie Leond Smith were located in Florence County on Saturday around 3:30 a.m.
Law enforcement with the Florence Police Department and the Florence County Sheriff’s Office located the boy and Smith during a traffic stop. Smith was in custody of the Florence County Sheriff’s Office on Saturday morning for violations in Florence County and possession of a stolen vehicle, the press release stated.
Rahmir was back with his mother Saturday morning and did not have any type of injuries, according to the press release.
On Friday night, the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office asked for help to find Rahmir and Leond, 46, of Lumberton. They were also looking for the car in which the two were last seen.
Deputies said they responded to a call about a stolen vehicle with a child inside just minutes before 8 p.m. Friday. Laterra Francis told deputies a man she knew had taken the car from her home in the 100 block of Southfield Rd. just west of Lumberton around 5:30 p.m. on Friday.
According to a press release from the Sheriff’s Office, Francis said she had just returned home and was putting groceries inside the house while her son Rahmir Brown played outside. She told deputies when she walked back outside moments later she saw her friend Sammie Leond Smith, 46, driving away in her car with Rahmir inside.
Smith has family in Darlington, South Carolina, according to the press release on Friday night.
