Police said a child at the center of an Amber Alert was found safe in Maine early Friday morning. 
 
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 The alert was issued after police said Jeremiah Grant, 33, of South Berwick, Maine, abducted his 18-month-old son from the boy's home in Somersworth Thursday afternoon. 
 
 Somersworth police said at about 1:30 a.m. Friday, a Farmington police officer spotted Grant driving on Fairbanks Road in Farmington, Maine. 
 
 The officer stopped Grant and was able to confirm the boy was still in the car. Police said Grant then fled the scene, leading authorities on a chase. 
 
 Grant was stopped after officers deployed road spikes on Route 27 in New Vineyard, Maine. 
 
 The boy was found unharmed and was checked by first responders at the scene. 
 
 The boy was reunited with his mother in Farmington a short time later. They are believed to be on their way back to Somersworth. 
 
 Grant is from Berwick, Maine, and is listed on Maine's sex offender registry in connection with a sexual assault that occurred outside the state. 
 
 Police said Grant was at the Somersworth home where the child and his mother lived on Thursday afternoon. Police said that when the mother was distracted, Grant took the child and fled in a vehicle that was in the yard. The mother called police right away, and the Amber Alert was issued after 9 p.m. 
 
 Grant is being held in Maine on a fugitive from justice charge. Police said he will be extradited back to New Hampshire to face charges including taking without owner's consent and a felony count of interference with custody. 
 
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 Police in Somersworth, New Hampshire, have cancelled an Amber Alert issued Thursday night for a missing 18-month-old boy and his 33-year-old father after the man's arrest and locating the unharmed infant. 
 
 Malachi Grant's mother thought she'd never see her young son again after he was abducted from their home by Jeremiah Grant. After what she calls 18 hours of pure agony, they were reunited Friday morning. 
 
 Stephanie Fall is convinced her baby's father had no intention of keeping him alive. 
 
 "I am blessed to be holding my son alive right now and safe," Fall said Friday morning. 
 
 Police say Malachi went on a dangerous 120-mile journey from Somersworth to Farmington, Maine, in a stolen car driven by his father with no food, no water and no car seat. 
 
 "There were issues with his mental well-being that really, really concerned us," explained Capt. David Kretschmar. 
 
 Authorities considered Malachi's father, Jeremiah Grant, to be dangerous and mentally unstable. 
 
 Fall says Malachi's father Jeremiah Grant was having a nervous breakdown. She says when he stole Malachi and took off in her car, she thought her little boy was never coming home. 
 
 "When your child is missing in a dangerous situation, you are without words to describe the feeling," she said. 
 
 Grant is a registered sex offender, convicted of a sexual assault in Dover in 2011. 
 
 But Fall says that has nothing to do with this. 
 
 "If someone would take the time to look at, it's a Class A misdemeanor," Fall explained. "It's definitely not for raping anybody or touching children, and I'd like to straighten that fact out." 
 
 The search set off an Amber Alert just after 9 p.m. Thursday. 
 
 Within four hours, authorities in Maine were tipped off to the vehicle's location. They arrested Grant and found Malachi in the backseat. 
 
 "A lot of us are dads and moms, so it hits us in a different way when that happens," Capt. Kretschmar said. 
 
 Somersworth police say they weren't going home until the little boy was found. 
 
 For that, Fall says "thank you" will never be enough. 
 
 "They stayed and they weren't stopping until they found my son and I appreciate it very much," Fall said. 
 
 She's also thanking the thousands of people who saw the Amber Alert and shared it on social media. She truly believes that's why Malachi is alive. 
 
 Police say Grant will face charges in Maine before being extradited to New Hampshire to face additional charges. ||||| Malachi Grant (Somersworth Police) 
 
 SOMERSWORTH, NH (CBS) – Police in Somersworth, New Hampshire have issued an Amber Alert for a one-year-old boy who was abducted Thursday afternoon. 
 
 Police say Malachi Grant was taken by his father Jeremiah Grant from Beacon Street. Police say Grant, 33, took the child from his mother without her consent after making comments that lead investigators to believe that the child is in danger. 
 
 Police believe Jeremiah Grant is driving a four door gray 1999 Honda Accord with New Hampshire plate 285-4569. Investigators have reason to believe that Grant is mentally unstable and is a danger to himself and others. 
 
 The child is 34 inches tall and about 38 pounds with brown hair and hazel eyes. Malachi was wearing a lime green t-shirt with black stripes, black shorts and navy blue sneakers. 
 
 Jeremiah Grant lives in Berwick, Maine, is described as six feet tall, 275 pounds and has brown hair and brown eyes. He is a registered sex offender in Maine. 
 
 He has tattoos on his left neck saying “Alpha Male”, a skull on his upper left arm and the inscription “INSANE” on his left forearm with a cross above it. 
 
 Also on his left forearm is the inscription “GRANT”. On the right inner forearm he also has a tattoo of a skull. 
 
 Grant was last seen wearing a bright yellow Haynes t-shirt and black pants. 
 
 Anyone with any information is asked to contact the Somersworth Police Department at 692-3131 or your local law enforcement agency.
– Police in New Hampshire say that Malachi Grant, an 18-month-old boy reportedly kidnapped by a father investigators describe as mentally unstable, has been found safe and sound, NECN reports. Authorities say 33-year-old Jeremiah Grant was arrested following a pursuit in Franklin County, Maine, around 1:30 this morning; Malachi was found unharmed in the vehicle his father was driving and will be brought back to his mother today. Police say Malachi was at his mother's home in Somersworth when 33-year-old Jeremiah Grant took off with him in a gray 1991 Honda Accord while she was distracted, WMUR reports. An Amber Alert had been issued, and police correctly thought Grant may have gone to Maine, where he's a registered sex offender, CBS Boston reports. Police had believed Grant—who is 6 feet tall, weighs 275 pounds, and has tattoos including the words "Alpha Male" on his neck and "INSANE" on his left forearm—to be a danger both to himself and the boy. "There were comments made during the course of the day that lead us to believe that the child is in danger," a police spokesman initially told WMUR. Grant was charged as a fugitive from justice, eluding police, reckless conduct, and endangering the welfare of a child, per WCSH. He'll be extradited back to New Hampshire, NECN reports.