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Abducted 3-Year-Old's Mom: 'I Know He's Scared'

POSTED: 7:00 am MST March 30, 2007
UPDATED: 9:13 pm MST March 30, 2007

The parents of a 3-year-old boy kidnapped from the parking lot of his apartment complex made a tearful plea Friday.

"I just want him to come home, that's it," said Tyrece Young, Isaiah Vargas's father.

Vargas was abducted from the parking lot of his apartment complex near McKellips Road and Mesa Drive on Thursday around 9:45 p.m.

"He doesn't do well with strangers and I know he's scared," said Sylvia Vargas, Isaiah's mom.

Young told police that a family acquaintance had just arrived at the complex with Isaiah in the car when a dark green Volkswagen Jetta pulled up next to the acquaintance's vehicle.

Young said two black men got out of the Jetta and began to assault the family acquaintance.

The men took Isaiah and left in the Jetta, Young said.

Young told police a third person was driving the Jetta, but police said he was unable to provide a description of the driver.

The Jetta left in an unknown direction.

Isaiah is 3 feet tall and weighs 29 pounds. He has brown hair, brown eyes and a slight scar on his right forehead. He was last seen wearing blue jeans a red jersey with an unknown number on the front and "FUBU" on the back.

Mesa police released a composite sketch shortly before noon Friday of one of the men involved in the kidnapping. Police said the man has a silver tooth.

Police said an Amber Alert was not issued because the kidnapping did not meet all the criteria.

Anyone with information about the kidnapping or Isaiah's whereabouts is asked to call Mesa police at 480-644-2211.

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