Baby found locked in hotel safe

A crying baby was found locked in a safe inside a room at a Howard Johnson’s hotel in Niagara Falls Tuesday morning. Niagara Regional Police report hotel maintenance was alerted that a baby had been locked in a safe in a room where a family from Brooklyn, N. Y., was staying. A maintenance worker attended the room and removed the baby from the safe. The baby was reported to be crying and alert. Police say the parents, who were on scene, immediately took the child and left the hotel prior to police being made aware of the incident. Police are trying to locate the family because they want to ascertain the welfare of the child. The licence plate associated to the hotel’s guest is New Jersey marker, B31EUB which is registered to a 2015 Grey Ford passenger van.