Boy, 14, taken in street abduction over step-brothers £2.3m drug debt

pA 14-year-old boy was bundled into the back of a black jeep by a group of men during a child abduction on the streets of Toronto./p pShammah Jolayemi was allegedly taken in retribution for an unpaid drug debt#xA0;owed by his stepbrother, police said./p pThe teen#xA0;was heard yelling, quot;Help me! Help me!quot; as he was forced#xA0;into the vehicle, bystanders told police./p pOfficers confirmed on Thursday evening that the boy had been found and was being taken to a local hospital for a medical checkup./p pPolice said#xA0;the stepbrother#xA0;owed a large debt stemming from a quot;multi-kiloquot; cocaine deal#xA0;worth about 4million Canadian dollars (#xA3;2.3million)./p img src=https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article21643114.ece/ALTERNATES/s810/0_Arizona-Diamondbacks-v-Toronto-Blue-Jays.jpg title=Toronto Police issued an alert for missing boy on Wednesday night (File image) data-portal-copyright=Getty Images p/p p/p p Detectives said the teen has no connection to the criminal lifestyle, reports the a href=https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/police-shammah-jolayemi-located-safeToronto Sun/a . /p pHe was last seen near on Wednesday morning when a gang of two or three men reportedly forced him into the black jeep on the cityapos;s Driftwood Avenue./p pA burned-out#xA0;vehicle matching that description was later found in Caledon, Ontario./p img src=https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article21643160.ece/ALTERNATES/s810/0_Shammah-Jolayemi.jpg title=Driftwood Avenue in Toronto data-portal-copyright=Google Streetview img src=https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article21643149.ece/ALTERNATES/s810/0_Shammah-Jolayemi.jpg title=Newtonbrook Secondary School in Toronto, Canada data-portal-copyright=Google Streetview pOne of the boyapos;s parents called police at about 5.30pm on Wednesday to report that he had not returned home./p pPolice issued an Amber Alert at midnight after the boy failed to return home and were criticised for not acting sooner./p pIt also emerged that the boyapos;s family were not told he didnapos;t show for class at Newtonbrook Secondary School./p pA news conference will be held today at Toronto Police Headquarters to provide an update on the case./p