4-Year-Old Found Wandering Streets Reunited With Parents: Cops

SONOMA COUNTY, CA — A 4-year-old child found wandering the streets of south Santa Rosa early Monday morning was reunited with his parents following an exhaustive search, authorities said. The boy described as Hispanic with a buzz haircut was found walking on Santa Rosa Avenue near East Robles Avenue — near a couple of mobile-home parks — at 2:55 a.m., according to the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office.

Sheriff’s deputies responded at about 3 a.m. Monday to a car wash in the 3300 block of Santa Rosa Avenue where a man said he'd found the child wandering in the area, sheriff's Sgt. Spencer Crum said.

The boy told deputies he fell asleep at his uncle's home and when he woke up in the middle of the night, his family wasn't there so he went looking for them and then got lost.

Deputies searched the area but were not able to find the boy's uncle's home. The sheriff's office also sent out a Nixle alert about the lost child.

Meanwhile, the boy was taken to a local hospital where a Child Protective Services representative met with him and provided care.

Then, at about 5:20 a.m., the sheriff's office received a call from the boy's mother. She said her son was supposed to be spending the night with his uncle and cousins at a residence in the Sunset Mobile Home Park in the 2900 block of Santa Rosa Avenue — nearly a mile from where the good Samaritan reportedly found the boy.

"[The uncle] told her that when he woke up, her son was not in their home," Crum said. "He looked around and was concerned that the child was gone."

"We were able to place her in touch with CPS to be reunited," Crum said.