Police arrest man, find 2 sons safe in southwest Ohio

He was jailed on a felonious assault charge.
MIDDLETOWN, Ohio (AP) -- Police arrested a man Wednesday accused of taking his two sons after stabbing the mother of one boy in the leg.
Julius Crossty III was found in an alley with the two boys more than 12 hours after he left with them, police said. Police Maj. Mark Hoffman said Crossty was within a few blocks of the house where he is accused of stabbing Carlena Reese, 31, late Tuesday.
A missing children Amber Alert broadcast across southwest Ohio described Crossty, 32, as having suicidal tendencies.
The Ford Taurus police believed he was driving was found in a used-car lot Wednesday morning, a garden hose leading from its tailpipe inside one of the windows. The engine wasn't running.
Police said Crossty contacted an acquaintance in Cincinnati for a ride later Wednesday, and the man notified police and helped them find Crossty and the boys: Julius Crossty, 9, and Julian Crossty, 8.
Hoffman said a house near where he was arrested was filled with natural gas, and police are trying to determine whether he was attempting to harm himself and the boys.
Crossty was jailed on a felonious assault charge and was scheduled for a court appearance this morning.
Reese, mother of the older boy, was in fair condition at Middletown Regional Hospital. There was no answer to a call to her room.
Amber Alerts, named after Amber Hagerman, a 9-year-old girl abducted and later found murdered in Texas in 1996, are bulletins for radio and television broadcasts and electronic highway signs about kidnapped children and their abductors.