Mother turns visit with children into kidnapping

Five children who thought they were spending Tuesday afternoon at the park with their mother were found in Fort Myers, Fla., 24 hours later.

Samantha Key picked up her five children about 4:30 Tuesday afternoon from her mother's house and said she was taking them to the park, Smyrna Detective Jeff Peach said.

After seven hours passed with no sign of Key or the children, Key's mother got worried and called police. The grandmother has had custody of the children, who are 6, 8, 9, 10 and 13, for almost two years.

The situation didn't meet the criteria for an Amber Alert, Peach said.

"We made contact with the Lee County (Fla.) Sheriff's Department and their missing persons department began working the case there," he said. "While working with an informant, we got an address of where she might be."

One of the children takes two different medications for seizures but was apparently OK. Peach said Key did something similar two years ago, forcing her mother to drive to Orlando to pick up the children.

Key will be charged with five counts of custodial interference, police said.