STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.-- Police have found the father who took his 2-year-old daughter from her Willowbrook home Tuesday morning.

Johnny Woo, 45, was apprehended at the Major Deegan Expressway and 179th Street in the Bronx at around 3 p.m., an NYPD spokesman said.

The child, Kim Woo, was unharmed, police said.

Charges against Woo are pending, officials said.

Woo took the child at around 8:30 a.m. from a home on Ismay Street, and was last seen on Forest Hill Road, police said.

The child's mother, 35, an off-duty officer, was punched in the torso during the dispute, police said.

The mom, who works in Brooklyn, was taken to Richmond University Medical Center, West Brighton, with a stomach injury, said a law enforcement source.

The couple is estranged and in the process of a divorce, the source said.

It is unclear who has custody of the child.

Authorities had believed the child was in "imminent danger," the State Police said.

Woo was last seen driving a black 2014 Kia Sorrento with a New York registration of GHH8886, police said.

Two civilians spotted Woo's vehicle in the Bronx, waved down school safety agents and the NYPD was notified, according to Police Commissioner James O'Neill on Twitter.

The large police response in Willowbrook Tuesday morning startled some residents.

"When I was home at 9 o'clock this morning, I was by my window and I was wondering, there were so many cops -- almost like a dozen cops," said one neighbor. "I was very nervous to go out."

The neighbor was not aware that the couple had separated.

"I really don't know what happened to them personally inside their house," the neighbor said.

-- Kathleen Thieme contributed to this report.