Country accompanist Mindy McCready and her son Zander, 5, are in aegis afterwards badge apparent the mother and adolescent ambuscade in a closet Friday night, U.S. Marshalls and Arkansas badge said.

Officials from the Florida Department of Children and Families said the boy is safe and the bureau is alive to accompany him from Arkansas aback to his acknowledged guardian in Florida How the Grinch Stole Christmas!.

The development is the most recent in a four-day adventure that began back McCready and her son vanished afterwards a appointment at her father's Cape Coral, Fla. Home on Tuesday. McCready popped up with a account on Thursday, but banned to acknowledgment Zander to the affliction of her mother, admitting pre-determined aegis arrange and a consecutive cloister order, the boy's ancestor told the Associated Press.

"I'm accomplishing all this to assure Zander, not break out of trouble," McCready wrote in an email to The Associated Press on Thursday. "I don't anticipate I should be in agitation for attention my son in the aboriginal place."

McCready said Zander was with her in Tennessee back she batten out on Thursday, but said she couldn't biking because she's about seven-months abundant with twins.

Gayle Inge, Zander's grandmother and McCready's mother, said the boy was with McCready and her admirer at his home Heber Spings, Arkansas, and that McCready had one point texted her half-brother, aggressive that she would never see her mother again.

But anxious ancestors were able to breathe a blow of abatement afterwards the brace were located, safe and sound, ambuscade in the closet as badge raided the home.

"I'm absolute aflame that he's safe," Inge said. "But I can't explain what this is like. We feel for Mindy and we feel for Zander."

"I appetite to blanket my accoutrements about her and acquaint her that I adulation her," Inge said.

It is not yet accepted if McCready will face bent charges.