The driver who robbed a car with a 7-year-old boy inside in the Bronx on Thanksgiving was arrested Saturday, police said.
Mohamed Sakho was hit with a long list of charges, including car theft, kidnapping, robbery, unlawful imprisonment and child abandonment, police said.
The family’s nightmare began Thursday when the child’s father parked his Acura RDX on Mac Donough Place in the Country Club section of the Bronx and took his 2-year-old to the family’s home, police said.
When he returned a short time later to pick up his seven-year-old son, he saw a stranger driving away with his son still inside, police said.
Police used the child’s mother’s phone to track the car through the Acura app.
While police were hunting for the stolen car and the boy, they were notified of an accident involving a vehicle matching the description of the Acura.
A witness called police after finding the boy crying outside the Acura, a police source said.
Sakho, 22, was arrested Friday for an unrelated robbery across Baychester Ave. 250, police said.
According to the police, he allegedly forcibly took a bag from a 42-year-old man.
Sakho has one previous arrest in April for criminal possession of a loaded weapon, police sources said.
He was awaiting arraignment on Saturday afternoon.
