SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say they found a 3-year-old boy who was sitting in a car stolen outside a Utah day care Tuesday after he answered his mother's cellphone and honked the horn to draw their attention. 
 
 Elizabeth Barrios and son Aiden Ngo leave a news conference at the Francom Public Safety Center in Ogden, Utah, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015. Authorities say Elizabeth Barrios left her car unlocked and running... (Associated Press) 
 
 Elizabeth Barrios holds her son Aiden Ngo during a news conference at the Francom Public Safety Center in Ogden, Utah, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015. Authorities say Elizabeth Barrios left her car unlocked... (Associated Press) 
 
 The boy's mother, Elizabeth Barrios, left the car unlocked and running on a snowy morning as she dropped off another child, a baby, at the day care around 7 a.m. in Ogden, a town about 40 miles north of Salt Lake City, police said. When she walked out, she saw someone driving her car away with her 3-year-old son Aiden inside. 
 
 Police arrived and called her cellphone, which was in the car, hoping to reach the thief and negotiate the boy's release, Lt. Tim Scott said. 
 
 Instead, the boy answered the phone. He told his mother that a stranger had driven away with her car and was going through her purse. She told him to stay calm as the man took things from her purse and ran away. 
 
 When the man was gone, officers told him to honk the horn and followed the sound to the car, which was abandoned about three blocks away. 
 
 "He was scared, but it was a good thing at his age that he was able to get himself out of his child seat and honk the horn," Scott said. 
 
 Police reunited the boy with his mother about 20 minutes after the car was stolen. Officers are searching for a suspect. 
 
 "He left my son, that's all that matters to me," Elizabeth Barrios told reporters on Tuesday. ||||| OGDEN, Utah (ABC 4 Utah) – A mother is reunited with her toddler, Tuesday, after watching someone steal the car he was strapped into. 
 
 
 
 "I didn't know who it was or what they wanted, where they were going to leave him, what they were going to do with him..." said Elizabeth Barrios, whose daily routine recently turned into her worst nightmare. 
 
 
 
 "I did what I always did—left my car running with him inside and just [took] the baby inside. It takes me less than two minutes,” Barrios explained. 
 
 
 
 Barrios was taking her baby brother into Little Seed Evolution Childcare Center near the 200 block of 2nd street. The Ogden mom left her three year-old son, Aiden, in her white 2012 Mazda 3. 
 
 
 
 "I went back outside, and my car was driving away with my three year-old inside of it,” Barrios said. 
 
 
 
 Ogden Police responded and quickly learned Barrios had left her cell phone in the car, too. 
 
 
 
 "They came up with the idea that they were going to contact this cell phone,” explained Lt. Tim Scott, with the Ogden City Police Dept. 
 
 
 
 To everyone's surprise, Aiden answered the phone and described the escalating situation to his mom! 
 
 
 
 "He was just telling me, you know, the guy is going through your purse, he's getting your purse. I was like, 'It's okay. Just stay calm, everything will be okay,'” Barrios recalled. 
 
 
 
 Aiden also informed authorities when the suspect had left the car. Officers asked the toddler to honk the horn until somebody found him. Aiden complied, and moments later, police found the boy parked nearby in the vehicle. 
 
 
 
 Authorities say the suspect most-likely took off when the child answered the phone in the backseat. Whoever it is abandoned the vehicle around the 400 block of 3rd street. As for Aiden, he is safe and sound. Everyone seems impressed with boy's ability to unlock his mom's phone, answer, and follow instructions. 
 
 
 
 "Doesn't surprise me...” said Daniel Severo, who owns Little Seed Evolution Childcare Center. “We know the child, and he is pretty smart,” he said. 
 
 
 
 "He knows my password, he uses it all the time,” laughed Barrios. 
 
 
 
 Ogden Police are still looking for the white-male suspect who reportedly has brown hair and a beard. If you know anything, call police. 
 

– Elizabeth Barrios was separated from her 3-year-old son for 20 terrifying minutes after a thief stole her car while he was inside yesterday—but it could have been a lot longer if he hadn't known how to unlock her phone. The Ogden, Utah, woman left her car unlocked and running with Aiden inside as she dropped another child off at day care, and she watched in horror as someone drove it away, ABC 4 reports. Police asked her to call her phone after learning she had left it inside, and she says that to her surprise, Aiden answered, telling her, "The guy is going through your purse, he's getting your purse." Police say the thief, who has not been caught, took off on foot after the boy answered the phone, leaving him alone in the car. They asked him to honk the horn and they found him about three blocks away, the AP reports. "He was scared, but it was a good thing at his age that he was able to get himself out of his child seat and honk the horn," a police spokesman says. At the day care center, staff say they know Aiden and they're not surprised the "pretty smart" boy was able to answer the phone and help police. "He knows my password, he uses it all the time," Barrios says. (Last year, car thieves ditched the baby who was inside the car they stole.)