He is being held without bond in Rock Island County Jail ... reportedly with 4-year old Blessing Aoci still in the back seat. Officers responded to the area within minutes and started a search.

One of the people arrested during the search for 4-year-old Blessing Aoci in Rock Island on Thursday made his initial court appearances Friday. Blessing was missing for hours after someone stole ...

Blessing Aoci, is Black, around 3 feet tall and 50 pounds, wearing a pink jacket, pink boots and blue pants. Police were at Maple Ridge Apartments in Rock Island at about 11 a.m. Two people were ...

Blessing Aoci (Rock Island Police Department) An Amber Alert was issued, followed by a mobilization of local, state and federal law enforcement resources “on a scale not seen in my 30 years in ...

Rock Island police said Blessing Aoci was located and reunited with her mother, and that she would be evaluated by EMS. The incident happened around 6:07 a.m. in the 1300 block of 14th 1/2 Street ...

An Illinois girl, Blessing Aoci, was reported missing by her mother after her car was stolen. But now the Rock Island woman is accused of lying to police. Getty Images/iStockphoto An Illinois ...

An Illinois girl, Blessing Aoci, is missing after her mother’s car was stolen while she was in the back seat, police say. Rock Island Police Department. A large-scale search is underway for a 4 ...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. (KWQC/Gray News ... Police Chief Tim McCloud said Blessing Aoci’s mother put her in a booster seat in the running car around 6:10 a.m. and went back to the house to ...

At 6:24 a.m., the stolen car was found about eight blocks away, abandoned and with no sign of Blessing. Blessing Aoci (Rock Island Police Department) An Amber Alert was issued, followed by a ...