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2 Charged In Disappearance Of Boy, 10, At Center Of Clay County Amber Alert

News4Jax

Two women are facing charges of interference with custody in connection with the disappearance of a 10-year-old boy who was at the center of an Amber Alert on Thursday, according to Clay County deputies.

WJCT News partner News4Jax reports Ondreja Olyvia Chaniece Ciprian, 23, and Vachastity Tahivy Raqkeil Christian, 25, are each charged with interference with the custody of a child and giving false information to a law enforcement officer regarding a missing person.

Hours after the boy disappeared Thursday while walking home from Argyle Elementary School, he was found safe at a home in Jacksonville.

The women's arrest reports indicate that the boy is being raised by a grandmother after his parents lost custody of him. The reports said that Ciprian has been trying to convince the boy to come live with her, "without the grandmother's knowledge or consent," over the last couple of weeks. She has no legal parental rights to the child.

It's unclear how Christian is connected to the family.

An expanded version of this story is at News4Jax.