A missing schoolboy
has been found safe after spending five days riding the subway with just $10 in
his pocket because he didn't want to clean up after his dog.
Kareem Granton, 11,
of East New York, was found Monday morning at the Union Square subway station
after a woman spotted him and alerted police.
When he was reunited
with his distraught family he revealed that he had left home because he did not
want to clean up after his dog, Queenie.
Kareem went missing
on Wednesday after he got home from school and went to play video games without
permission with a friend after being told to clean up.
The pair then went
to a nearby Chuck E. Cheese's to eat and Kareem disappeared.
His frantic family
launched an appeal to find the schoolboy who disappeared after having 'a
tantrum in the moment.'
He was found on
Monday by a woman who spotted him at about 7am and notified the K-9 cop
on the platform.
The officer, Dennis
Grimm, 36, immediately followed with his dog and boarded the car to get
Kareem.
Kareem told CBS 2 said he survived on just $10 which had been given to
him by his stepfather and slept on the subway.
He admitted he ran
off in anger: 'I just had a tantrum, a type of anger problem. So I just wanted
to express it in a different way.'
Mr Grimm said Kareem
told him he went to the mall Wednesday at Barclays Center with a friend, but
the two became separated.
'He got lost and has
been on the train since then,' Mr Grimm said.
Authorities said the
boy appeared to be in good physical condition.
His mother Precious
Granton said she was grateful to be reunited with her son, but he would be
punished.
'I was happy. I
wanted to be jumping like I won a million dollars,' Granton told CBS 2 of
the moment she was reunited with her son.
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