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AMBER Alert canceled: Missing 7-year-old boy found safe

Prophet Marquis Matthew Johnson has been located and found safe.

GLEN BURNIE, Md. — An AMBER Alert was issued for a missing 7-year-old boy who was last seen Thursday night in Glen Burnie, Maryland. Police in Anne Arundel County investigated the case as a parental abduction.

Anne Arundel Police say officers were called to the 400 block of Glen Mar Circle in Glen Burnie for a reported parental abduction and home invasion. 

The mother, maternal grandmother, and two unidentified men forced open the door to the apartment and assaulted the father and paternal grandparents before grabbing the 7-year-old boy and taking off.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children reported that Prophet Marquis Matthew Johnson is 4 feet tall, Black, with black hair and brown eyes, and 50 lbs. 

Anne Arundel County Police said at approximately 3:30 p.m. Friday, Prophet's mother, Tiffany Charquita Johnson, 39, of Concord, North Carolina, and the child walked into a Baltimore County police station to turn herself in.

Prophet was not found to be injured and will be reunited with his father, police said.

Anyone with information should call 911 or the Anne Arundel County Police Department at 410-222-6135.

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