Abducted Florida Boy Found

Officials found the 11-year-old boy who was allegedly abducted from Florida by a convicted child molester alive and well northwest Georgia.

Tsuspect, 42-year-old Frederick Fretz, is still at large. The FBI says it believes Fretz might be in a nearby wooded area.

Earlier in the day, authorities found an abandoned car in Georgia belonging to a convicted child molester suspected of taking him.

CBS News Correspondent Peter King reports Frederick Fretz, 42, was last heard from Tuesday, when he called 11-year-old Adam Kirkirt's father to say he'd picked him up from school but was having car trouble.

An Amber Alert was issued Wednesday after the boy went missing.

Officials said Fretz had been living with Adam and his father, Ivan Kirkirt, and that Fretz frequently took the boy to and from school.

Fretz's car was abandoned near Interstate 75 in Bartow County, about 40 miles north of Atlanta. "It appears it broke down," said police Sgt. Mike Powell. "There was a lot of antifreeze under the car."

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation issued its own Amber Alert after learning the car was found so close to the state line. The alert said the two might be hitchhiking northward on Interstate 75.

The FBI was examining the car, which had its license plate removed and had some camping gear in it, Powell said. He said K-9 units were being brought to help search the area, but there was no immediate sign of Fretz or the boy.

"I would assume they went north since they were traveling north at the time," he said.

Florida authorities had issued an Amber Alert after they learned that Fretz had been convicted in 1991 of sexually assaulting an 11-year-boy in Pennsylvania.

Fretz and Ivan Kirkirt had recently served time together in the Marion County, Fla., jail and realized they knew each other as teens in New Jersey. Kirkirt invited Fretz to move in to his Ocala, Fla., mobile home when he was released in October after serving time for domestic battery and marijuana possession. The boy joined them in December.

Officials said Fretz never informed Kirkirt or local officials he was a convicted child molester.