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Missing child is safe

Carolina County Police Department in Virginia stopped a woman who took her 5-year-old child from the girl’s grandmother’s custody in ShopRite Monday night.

Pennsylvania State Police said police located Courtney Foulk and her daughter Inez at 3:15 p.m. Tuesday at a gas station off Interstate 95.

Social Services in Virginia will be taking custody of the juvenile until Lehigh County Children and Youth Services can make arrangements to retrieve the juvenile from their custody. Police said the custody order originated in Lehigh County.

Courtney Foulk, 37, will be taken to their local correctional facility where she will be housed on the charges until she is extradited to Pennsylvania.

A citizen saw the Missing Endangered Person Advisory in his travels on I-95 Tuesday afternoon and then saw the vehicle disabled in an Exxon gas station.

State police at Fern Ridge issued the alert after Inez went missing early Monday evening at the ShopRite Supermarket in Brodheadsville.

At 6:41 p.m., troopers received an emergency call from the child’s grandmother that the girl, Inez Foulk, was at the ShopRite Supermarket in Chestnuthill Township.

At that time, the child’s biological mother, Courtney Foulk, fled with the child in her blue 1996 Chevy Lumina while at ShopRite.

Courtney Foulk was only allowed to have supervised visits through Children and Youth with Inez; she is not to be alone with the child.

She is being charged with interference with custody of children, a felony 3 offense.