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Associated Press - March 11, 2010 9:54 AM ET
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Two boys reportedly taken in an abduction in Decatur, Ill., have been found safe in St. Louis.
Police found 1-month-old J'Marcus Upchurch and 4-year-old Terry Antonio Smith about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday. The mother was also there, and was being questioned.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that after the boys were found, Illinois troopers arrested three people heading north on Interstate 55 in a car that matched the description of 1 used in the alleged abduction.
Authorities are still searching for the father of the boys, who recently finished a prison term for involuntary manslaughter in the death of another child.
Police say the boys were taken at gunpoint Tuesday outside a residential facility for dependent and neglected children, minutes after a visit with their mother.
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