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Amber Alert canceled; man in police custody after missing 1-year-old found safe in Columbus
One man is in police custody after a missing child at the center of an overnight Amber Alert was found safe in Columbus.
The alert was issued around 3 a.m. June 28 for 1-year-old Milena Gebremeskel, who was last seen at a home on the 6200 block of Thornton Avenue, on the city's Northeast Side, according to the alert.
A Columbus police dispatcher said the girl was found soon after in a Kohl's parking lot on North Hamilton Road. She was found with Siem Gebremeskel, 24, the girl's father and the suspect listed in the Amber Alert.
The Amber Alert was canceled shortly before 4 a.m. Gebremeskel was taken into custody, according to a Columbus police dispatcher. No other details about the incident were immediately available.
Higher education reporter Sheridan Hendrix can be reached at shendrix@ and on Signal at @sheridan.120. You can follow her on Instagram at @sheridanwrites.
This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Columbus Amber Alert: Man in custody after missing child found safe
