Amber Alert Ends With 2-Year-Old Safe; Man In Custody: Police

BECKER, MN — A 2-year-old boy was found safe and a man was taken into custody after an Amber Alert was issued overnight out of Becker, northwest of the metro area, according to police.

Officers responded around 7 p.m. Saturday to the 12900 block of Rolling Ridge Road, where they met with a female who had been assaulted, and learned Scott Peter Henrickson had fled with the toddler in the victim’s vehicle, police said.

Henrickson, 41, was not allowed to have contact with the child due to a court order and an Amber Alert was issued around midnight, according to police.

At roughly 12:30 a.m., a homeowner in the 7800 block of Highland Scenic Road in Baxter — about 80 miles north of Becker — called the Crow Wing County Sheriff’s Office and reported light and movement in a shed at an address to which the Henrickson had ties, police said. Henrickson was eventually taken into custody following about 3.5 hours of negotiating, according to police.

He was booked into the Crow Wing County Jail on charges out of Baxter, and additional charges sought by the Becker Police Department were pending, including domestic assault, violating an order of protection, violent threats and unauthorized use of a vehicle, authorities said.