The boy’s mother had left him in the car while she went into a post office, and the car was gone when she returned.

Within minutes, police found the boy at school.

When the “two guys” who got in the car noticed him, the boy said, they told him they were there to take him to school, asked him which one was his and dropped him off.

The child’s mother had left her iPhone in the car and used an app to track it — and the car — to a spot about three miles away, where it had been abandoned.

Watch the video report here.

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Fulton DA Fani Willis (center) with Nathan J. Wade (right), the special prosecutor she hired to manage the Trump case and had a romantic relationship with, at a news conference announcing charges against President-elect Donald Trump and others in Atlanta, Aug. 14, 2023. Georgia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025, upheld an appeals court's decision to disqualify Willis from the election interference case against Trump and his allies. (Kenny Holston/New York Times)

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