Sarge's Life saving Award goes to Alsip Police

Sarge wants to say well done, the fact that these suburban cops had nothing to do but to look for a child is amazing. I mean it's Alsip the town where cops would stop to watch kids play ball or join them for a few swings on the bat, or to sit and watch the kids play football at Apollo Park.  The best thing about it is that they saved the kids life. So the Sarge is giving the department this life saving award. Well done! 


Porter Stone, allegedly abducted by his father, leaves Advocate Christ Medical Center this morning

Three family members accused of taking a 5-year-old boy from a St. Louishospital where he is on a heart transplant list are headed back to Missouri to face charges.

The father, aunt and grandmother of the boy waived extradition Thursday during a court hearing in Chicago.

The three are charged with taking Porter Stone from St. Louis Children's Hospital on Tuesday afternoon, soon after he was discharged following evaluation for a transplant. Police found them early Wednesday in a motel room in south suburban Alsip.

The boy's father. Jeffrey Stone, his aunt, Heather Minton and his grandmother Rhonda Matthews appeared before Cook County Judge James Brown. They face kidnapping and child endangerment charges.

Brown ordered all three held without bond until Missouri authorities take them into custody.

After abducting the boy, Jeffrey Stone repeatedly called and texted the boy's mother, Tiffany Stone, taunting her and calling her names and refusing to let her speak to her son or tell her where they were at, prosecutors in Missouri allege.

Police were able to tell the phone was not in Missouri, but officials did not confirm that they used the cell phone to track Stone to Alsip.

Stone and Matthews were taken into custody and the boy was taken to a hospital to be checked, though he seemed fine, according toSt. Louis police. He left the hospital this morning, wrapped in a blanket and carried by his mother into a waiting cab.

Doctors had expressed concern when the boy disappeared because he suffers from cardiomyopathy -- a weakening of the heart -- and was hooked up to a portable IV containing just a day's worth of medication.

Porter is at the center of a custody dispute between Stone and the boy's mother, Tiffany Stone. Tiffany Stone is in the process of divorcing Jeffrey Stone in Tarrant County, Texas, according to the St. Louis Circuit Attorney's office. The Texas court awarded her custody of the boy in December.

"We never thought in our wildest dreams that he would do anything like this," Porter's maternal grandfather, Matthew Fife, said.

Police issued an Amber Alert for Porter after his father took him from St. Louis Children's Hospital around 4 p.m. Tuesday, police said.

Porter, who lives in St. Joseph in northwestern Missouri, has been traveling back and forth between St. Louis and Kansas City for treatment of his condition. On Tuesday, the family decided to place the boy on a heart transplant list. Porter was then discharged so he could be monitored by doctors closer to home in the Kansas City area, authorities said.

Police say Stone took the boy to the hospital's pharmacy, then called his estranged wife and said he was taking him away.

( Alsip Police / April 25, 2012 )

Jeffrey Stone, Rhonda Matthews and Heather Minton have been charged with Parental Abduction and related charges by the St. Louis PD stemming from Tuesday¿s abduction of 5 year old Porter Stone from a hospital in St. Louis. Stone, Matthews and Minton are being held on $1,000,000 bond arrest warrants at the Alsip, Illinois Police Department. (Alsip Police)