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A woman who was court-ordered to not have contact with her children but took them Saturday from a southern Minnesota home where they were staying has been found with the children in Moorhead, Minn., and taken into custody.

asked for the public's help finding Izetta Cooley

 after she'd taken the children without permission.

Officials said they were concerned about the welfare of the children. Cooley's husband, 44-year-old Miguel Cooley of Moorhead, Minn., is accused of fatally shooting a 20-year-old man outside a McDonald's restaurant in Fargo, N.D., on Sept. 23. Miguel Cooley was later arrested in southeastern Minnesota.

On Tuesday morning, authorities executing a search at a Moorhead home found Izetta Cooley and four of her children. One child, a 17-year-old boy, remains missing.

Moorhead police said Cooley, 39, was arrested for an outstanding felony kidnapping warrant out of Mower County and is in the Clay County Jail. The children are currently under the custody of Clay County, according to a 

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Authorities had asked for the public's help finding Izetta Cooley, who was court-ordered to not have contact with the children but who showed up for them at the home where they were staying Saturday.

Mother, kids missing from southern Minnesota found in Moorhead

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