Update: The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension reported Sunday that Nolen Joseph May-Schmitz, 5, has been located and is safe.
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The Belle Plaine (Minn.) Police Department is seeking the public's help in finding a woman who abducted her 5-year-old son after she illegally fled a supervised appointment with him Saturday afternoon.
At about 3:50 p.m., Nichole Marie May, 29, arrived for her court-ordered supervised visitation appointment to see her son, Nolen Joseph May-Schmitz, in Belle Plaine, which is nearly an hour southwest of the Twin Cities, according to an alert from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
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May, who is the boy's non-custodial parent, fled the visitation area with May-Schmitz, the BCA said. She had not been seen at her home in Montgomery, Minn. as of late Saturday night.
May-Schmitz's father, who lives in Sand Creek Township near Belle Plaine, is the boy's custodial parent, Belle Plaine Police Chief Thomas Stolee said on the police department's Facebook page.
May and her son left in her blue 2000 Pontiac Grand Prix with Minnesota license plates 609-LRX. One of the vehicle's front marker lights is out, the BCA said.
A BCA background check revealed May has relatives in South Dakota.
"While we believe there is no danger to the public and we don't believe the child is any physical danger, this abduction is a crime, and we are treating it as such," Stolee said.
Belle Plaine police are working with the Scott County Sheriff's Office, the BCA and other law enforcement agencies.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Belle Plaine police department's tipline at 952-496-8423.
