UPDATE: On Thursday, Jan. 16, the Rock Island Police Department announced that Blessing Aoci was found safe and in "apparent good health." Multiple suspects were arrested in connection with the case. An Amber Alert has been issued for a missing 4-year-old girl who was inside her mother’s car when it was stolen in Illinois.

A missing 4-year-old girl who was the subject of an Amber Alert in Rock Island on Thursday morning has been found safe.

Rock Island police gave an update Thursday just after an Illinois Amber Alert was issued for a 4-year-old girl who was inside a vehicle that was stolen earlier in the morning.

UPDATE: The 4-year-old girl who was in the back seat of a vehicle that was stolen Thursday, Jan. 16, was found safe, police in Illinois said, according to multiple reports. The original story is below.

An Illinois Amber Alert was issued Thursday morning at the request of the Rock Island Police Department after a vehicle was stolen with a 4-year-old girl inside.

An Amber Alert was issued for a missing 4-year-old girl in Rock Island, Illinois. The child was found safe, and five people have been arrested.

Police said 4-year-old Blessing Aoci has been reunited with her mother. Five teens have been arrested in the case.

An Amber Alert in the Quad Cities ended with a four-year-old girl found safe after investigators in Rock Island said five teens stole her mom's car with her in

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