An 11-year-old boy who didn't get on his St. Paul school bus Wednesday, touching off an overnight police search, was found safe late Thursday morning.
Jordan Brown had been with a relative, who turned the boy over to a lawyer, police spokesman Tom Walsh said.
Citing a continuing investigation, he declined to say where the boy spent the night.
Ramsey County records show that Jordan and a younger sibling have been in foster care since late last year.
That the fourth-grader now was safe capped an anxious night and morning for his guardians and school officials at Maxfield Magnet Elementary School in St. Paul.
On Wednesday, Jordan went out with classmates to one of nine buses lined up along Central Avenue. But instead of getting aboard, he kept walking.
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