WHITEHALL, Ohio -- The City of Whitehall Division of Police issued a missing persons alert for a 4-month-old girl Friday morning.
According to police, 4-month-old Zarhila T. Brown was reported missing after she was last seen at 11 a.m. Thursday. Her mother said she lets the girl's grandfather, Otis Lane, watch the infant while she is at work.
"We have a routine time. So at the normal time he comes and gets her. Then, when I call him, he actually drops her off at my job," said Latoya Satterwhite, the girl's mother.
When Satterwhite arrived at Lane's home on the 4200 block of E. Broad Street in Whitehall, Lane and Zarhila were no where to be found and Lane failed to appear at work Friday. Police said Otis Lane is reportedly drug dependent.
Officials said Lane brought the girl home Friday morning, where Satterwhite was waiting.
Police said it appears that the child was unharmed but investigators are contemplating having the child checked by medical professionals.
Satterwhite said her father returned home Friday morning telling her he had been carjacked, but that she doesn't believe him.
Lane was taken into custody and faces misdemeanor charges of falsification and interference with custody.
Satterwhite said she is thankful to have her baby back. She said her father has a history of drug abuse and she suspects that his absence was connected to that battle. She also said she will not let her father babysit his grandchild in the future.
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