Missing boy found outside apartment

A toddler who was allegedly abducted from foster care by his mother in Lake County was turned in to Kalispell police under unusual circumstances Wednesday.

Deago Rinkes, 18 months, was initially the subject of an Amber Alert for missing children. That was rescinded because Amber Alerts aren't intended for parental abductions. But the search for Deago continued.

Last week, the 1994 Chevy Cavalier his mother was thought to be driving was reportedly found in Kalispell.

On Tuesday, a woman who used to be friends with Deago's mother said she heard a knock on her apartment door in Kalispell.

When she opened the door, she found a child in a car seat, next to a bag containing diapers and other items. She recognized the child as Deago, she said.

The woman said she last saw his mother and her boyfriend last week. She wasn't aware that people were looking for Deago until a neighbor told her, after the boy appeared on her doorstep.

Kalispell police Sgt. Jim Wardensky said the woman brought the boy to the Police Department. She told police she doesn't know where his mother, Angela Rinkes, or her boyfriend, Christopher Villa, are.

Wardensky said the child seemed to be healthy, except for some wounds on his fingers.

"He's too little to talk" about where he has been, Wardensky said.

A police dispatcher called Lake County to say the child had been found. He was taken to the Department of Family Services in Flathead County, awaiting the boy's foster parents and representatives from the Department of Family Services in Lake County.

Angela Rinkes is accused of taking the child during a supervised visit with him in foster care.

A warrant was issued for her arrest in Lake County on a felony charge of custodial interference.