Cops: Man loses stepson while trying to buy drugs

[March 19, 2010]  PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Philadelphia police said a man out buying drugs flagged down officers after he couldn't find the car he'd parked with his 6-year-old stepson inside.

The man, 31, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and recklessly endangering another person.

Police said the suspect had driven from Lehigh County to Philadelphia to buy drugs before he flagged down a police car around 4:30 Saturday morning. Authorities said he explained that he couldn't find the car with the boy inside.

Police found the car two hours later about a half-mile from where the suspect hailed officers.

The child was unhurt and turned over to his mother. The man remains jailed on $4,000 bail.

[Associated Press]

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