MUSKEGON, MI -- An arrest warrant has been authorized for a man police believe was the driver in a high-profile June 25 hit-and-run accident in Muskegon involving a baby stroller that was dragged with the child still in it, police said.

The Muskegon County Prosecutor's Office late Friday authorized a warrant charging the alleged driver with two counts of leaving the scene of a personal-injury accident, a one-year misdemeanor, and one count of driving without ever having applied for a license, a 93-day misdemeanor.

Authorities did not release the man's name immediately because the warrant had not been signed by a magistrate or judge.

Police were in the process of searching for the 20-year-old driver of the van as of late Friday afternoon, according to a Muskegon Police Department official.

In addition, a 17-year-old passenger in the van was arrested Friday afternoon on unrelated charges, the police official said.

The incident, captured on the business surveillance camera, occurred around 10:30 a.m. in the parking lot of Sam’s Drink All, 1500 S. Getty St., in Muskegon.

Video footage of the shocking incident was broadcasted on news networks nationwide.

Police said Aireanna Currier was pushing her son, 18-month-old Elijah Currier, through the parking lot in a stroller when a gold van backed into her, at which point the stroller got struck on the bumper of the van and was dragged with the child in it for "a short distance."

“The Curriers had been struck by a Gold Pontiac Montana mini-van containing two male subjects. Aireanna Currier was knocked to the ground, suffering minor abrasion injuries to her lower legs, while Elijah Currier’s stroller became entangled with the rear bumper of the mini-van,” police said in a press release.

“Elijah Currier was dragged a short distance before his Mother was able to remove him from the stroller before the van fled the scene with the stroller in tow. Elijah Currier suffered only minor abrasion injuries.”

Authorities in the press release expressed gratitude to “all of those who aided in the identification" of the suspects, with “special thanks to Muskegon County Sheriff’s Lt. James Christiansen and his Silent Observer (231-722-7463) program.”

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Staff writer John S. Hausman contributed to this story.