IMMOKALEE, Fla. -- A Collier County couple is now behind bars after a boy who vanished during a Cape Coral soccer game this week was found with them, dozens of miles away in Immokalee.
26-year-old Juan Lopez-Ramos and 20-year-old Etelvina Lopez-Ramirez are charged with interfering with custody after they reportedly took Jeremias Lopez-Domingo from the Cape Coral Sports Complex on Tuesday.
And it all stems from the child's fear of being deported to South America.
According to a Collier County Sheriff's report, Jeremia's foster parents report that he had used a cousin's phone to call a Pennsylvania phone number earlier in the day before he disappeared from a soccer game in Cape Coral Tuesday evening.
That phone number pinged to a location in Immokalee, over 40 miles away from the Cape Coral soccer fields.
While checking a group of trailers in the area on Wednesday, a vehicle with a Pennsylvania tag was located, with Juan Lopez-Ramos inside. He denied having any knowledge of the missing boy.
However, another family member told investigators that they heard a conversation in which Etelvina and Juan were to go to the soccer game and take Jeremias with them.
Investigators later located Jeremias, along with Etelvina and her infant child hiding in a trailer behind one unit.
