unattended with her son Ismyel inside. When she came back, the car was gone. The car was equipped with a GPS and police tracked it to the area of Drew Street, then on U.S. 19, at times going the wrong way in the lanes of U.S. 19.
The car crashed around 2:20 p.m. just south of Curlew Road, and the driver, Stevie Gamble Jr., was taken into custody.
Police say that Badillo's parents, Nestor Badillo and Angelica Marrero, eventually cracked as the search for the little boy intensified. They admitted they were telling a tall tale. Police found Ismyel at his daycare in Pinellas Park, where he was the entire time.
Marrero told police the boy she knew he had been there along. Indeed, when police went to verify that, they found him and his 4-year-old sister, safe and sound.
Marrero and Badillo were taken to jail at 8:30 Wednesday night.
Badillo said to reporters, "it takes a few months to figure out who stole my car. It happened again, they stole it out of my driveway. Maybe this will teach people not to steal other people's vehicle