***Updated September 29, 2009 11:54 a.m.***
Some digital billboards did not have a description of the vehicle in an AMBER Alert that was issued this morning.
SLED tells News Channel 7 the Department of Transportation decides what goes on the signs, but the vehicle description was vague and unconfirmed, which is why the description was not on the signs.
***Updated September 29, 2009 10:54 a.m.***
WCBD-TV reports Geomarti Young, who was the subject of an AMBER Alert, is safe after two women returned the child to police.
Geonaldo Young, charged with kidnapping the boy, is still on the loose.
The State Law Enforcement Division canceled the AMBER Alert at 10:47am Tuesday.
Two women - one who is apparently a relative - brought the two-year old boy to police at a Church's restaurant in Charleston hours after he was kidnapped Tuesday morning.
An AMBER Alert was issued after North Charleston Police say Geomarti was was taken from his home by his father.
The child's mother says Geonaldo Young, 27, entered her apartment on Ward Avenue in North Charleston before 2:45am.
Geonaldo Young held the woman against her will with the child in the apartment until she was able to run to a neighbor's home to call authorities.
Young and the child were gone when she returned.
Young was believed to have been last seen driving a green or dark gray Mazda or similar vehicle possibly with Virginia license plate according to North Charleston Police and SLED.
Geonaldo Young, 27, is described as a black man, 6'0", 180 pounds with close cut brown hair and brown eyes. He was wearing a red shirt, blue shorts and white shoes when last seen.
Geonaldo Young is charged with criminal domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature and kidnapping. Young has been charged previously with armed robbery, assualt and battery high and aggravated nature and assaulting a police officer while resisting arrest.
If you have any information, please contact Sgt.Kelly Spears North Charleston Police Department at the following telephone numbers:
843-822-1128
843-745-1052
News Channel 7 will update this story.
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