Story highlights Julian Hernandez was 5 when he and his father vanished from Alabama in 2002

Julian was listed as missing; his father, Bobby Hernandez, has been arrested

Julian is now 18

(CNN) A child who was reported missing in Alabama 13 years ago has been found safe and unharmed in Cleveland, Ohio, authorities say.

Julian Hernandez was in the legal custody of his mother when he disappeared on August 28, 2002. He was 5 then.

It was suspected that his father, Bobby Hernandez, took him as part of a noncustodial parental abduction, according to the Vestavia Hills Police Department, just south of Birmingham.

Bobby Hernandez (Photo: Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office)

A lead in the case came Sunday, when Vestavia Hills police were contacted by the FBI in Cleveland about a missing child.

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