Missing Concord boys found in Missouri; father arrested, police say

Police arrested the father of two missing Concord boys after finding them in Missouri on Monday morning, according to the Concord Police Department.

Shortly before 7 p.m. Saturday, the missing brothers, ages 8 and 11, were reportedly taken from a yard on near their grandmother’s apartment along Wilshire Avenue.

Police found them with their father, Aaron Eugene Toliver, at a Super 8 hotel near the intersection of Interstate 29 U.S. Hwy 136 in Rock Port, Missouri, at 8:35 a.m. Monday. Toliver is being charged with felony abduction by a parent.

Police initially called it a possible kidnapping and believed he could have been en route to Texas or Florida, where he has family. The United States Secret Service, the U.S. Marshals Service, the Missouri State Highway Patrol and the Atchison County Sheriff’s Office were all involved in the hunt for Toliver and his sons.

Missouri Child Protective Services was caring for the boys — 8-year-old Josiah Brooks and 11-year-old Aaron Toliver — while arranging efforts to reunite them with their grandmother, who cares for them Concord.