Police: Kidnapped Boy Found Safe

ATASCADERO, Calif. (CBS13) -- Police said the kidnapped boy who was taken from a Central California homeless shelter Friday morning has been found alive.

Four-year-old Jeremy Lee-Logan Guthrie was allegedly snatched from the Echo Shelter at the First Baptist Church in Atascadero around 4:30 a.m. by 53-year-old Annette Hale, who is not related to the boy.

The abduction may have been sparked by an argument between Hale and the boy's mother, according to detectives.

Investigators said they received a phone call from someone, possibly Hale, saying Jeremy was waiting in a vacant building on a car dealership. Police soon found the boy unharmed and then apprehended Hale a few minutes later.

"Two very astute state hospital officers noticed Ms. Hale hiding in the bushes in a nearby business, very close to the car dealership," according to Atascadero Police Chief Steve Gesell.

Hale's ex-husband Jim Wittenberg, a Sacramento resident, said Hale is mentally ill and sometimes suffers from delusions, and spoke with investigators within hours of the abduction about her habits and behavior.

"She might think that the child is hers," Wittenberg said.

Jeremy was reunited with his family Friday evening.