COLUMBIA --- A 4-month-old boy snatched from his mother's car in North Carolina was found Wednesday morning wet and crying after surviving seven hours in the South Carolina woods with a man police say took the child.

"I held the baby. He was alert, but wet and crying. He seemed fine, but we transferred him to the emergency room to have him checked out," Chesterfield County Sheriff's Lt. Briana Davis said in a telephone interview. "He was a little dirty after being in the woods so long."

The baby was returned to his mother later Wednesday.

Davis said Jalleel Xamir Howard was found around 2 a.m. Wednesday, about 15 hours after he was taken from his mother's car in a Monroe, N.C., doctor's office parking lot.

Lonnie Cecil Buchanan, 41, of Monroe has been charged with kidnapping and is being held in the Union County, N.C., jail under a $250,000 bond, said Capt. Bryan Gilliard of the Monroe Police Department.

Beulah Marie Steen, 23, also of Monroe, is charged with kidnapping and is being held on a $50,000 bond, Gilliard said. There was no information about whether either has an attorney.

Gilliard praised the South Carolina police for sighting Buchanan and Steen's vehicle, then keeping bloodhounds in a wooded area to track him down until he emerged from the woods with the baby.

"Those guys just wouldn't stop until they found that child," Gilliard said.

South Carolina police stopped a car being driven by Steen around 7 p.m. Tuesday evening on state Highway 207 near Pageland. Davis said Buchanan ran into the woods with the baby after seeing officers in the area.

About seven hours later, she said, Buchanan came out of the woods with the child and was arrested.