LIBERTY CITY (CBSMiami) -- 10-year-old Junior Louis is under house arrest indefinitely. His mother, Natifida Louis is serving as warden.

Junior gave her the scare of a lifetime when he got into a car with a stranger and disappeared in front of their Liberty City home.

"I said, 'Oh my god I'm going to die.' I start to panic, shake and cry," Louis told CBS4's Natalia Zea.

Junior said he was playing basketball with friends Saturday afternoon when a man pulled up and offered to pay them to put up fliers.

"This man came asking do you want to get paid?" said Junior.

Junior said he agreed to put up fliers for the man, left his friends, and the man followed him several blocks to Junior's house so he could drop off his bike. At no time did that man ask his mother permission to take him.

Junior said he and a teenage boy in the car who he didn't know put up the real estate fliers around the neighborhood.

"He told me I was doing a good job."

When a neighbor told Natifida Louis her son left with a stranger, she immediately called 911, and worried about her son.

"I don't know what this guy going to do with my son," said Louis.

An hour later, the man dropped Junior off unharmed. Police quickly arrested him and Louis said she saw them pull guns from the car and took a bullet out of one of them.

"I'm thinking what's he going to do with the gun? After I see the police coming with the guy I try to say what you do to my son? But they don't want me close. They stopped me," explained the concerned mother.

The man's motives are not clear, but Junior now understands the danger he put himself in.

While he serves his sentence, he's grounded, he offered this message to other kids.

"Don't do what I did. Don't make the mistake I did."

Miami Police have not released the name of the suspect. He has been charged with interfering with child custody, a third-degree felony.