UPDATE: The Missing Endangered Person Advisory for Gerome Poitra has been cancelled. Gerome has been located by BIA Crow Agency officers and is safe. Big Horn County Sheriff's Office thanks everyone for their assistance.
Montana law enforcement officials issued a missing endangered person advisory Wednesday night for a toddler taken by his noncustodial father.
Authorities say 2-year-old Gerome Cash Poitra was taken from his grandparents' house in Lodge Grass. Officials are concerned for the boy's well-being and safety.
Gerome Poitra is Native American, 3-foot-4, 50 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a green shirt, a brown Bears windbreaker jacket, red shorts with green stripes and blue Nike shoes.
The suspect, Dexter Wayne Poitra Jr., is 25 years old, Native American, 6-foot-2, 160 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.
They are believed to be in a 2016 gray Dodge Caravan with Montana license plate number 22-8201C.
If you have any information you are asked to call the Big Horn County Sheriff's Office at 406-665-9780 or 911.