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Three men forced their way into a Colonial Heights home Monday, abducting a 7-year-old girl who was found safe several hours later in North Carolina, police said.

According to police, Travis Deon Bennett and two other men came to a home in the 200 block of Lakeview Park Road and tried to forced the girl and her mother, with whom Bennett had been with in a prior relationship, into a vehicle. While the suspects were able to get the girl into the vehicle, her mother managed to escape and call police.

Authorities found the child shortly before midnight in Weldon, N.C.

Bennett, 33; Troy Elmore Patterson, 19; and Travis Donell Harvey, 31, have been charged with felony abduction in connection with the incident, police said. All are from Roanoke Rapids, N.C.

Bennett and Patterson are in custody while Harvey remains at large, police said.

Additional charges are pending, police said.