GENEVA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — A sheriff’s office K-9 tracked and found a toddler after he went missing near South Haven, Michigan on Monday.

The 3-year-old had reportedly opened the screen of a home’s front window, crawled through and left on foot in Geneva Township.

“The little child … did what kids do. Just took off,” Van Buren County Sheriff Daniel Abbott told Nexstar’s WOOD.

When the toddler was reported missing to the Van Buren County Sheriff’s Office, he had not been seen for about a half hour and had been wearing only a diaper.

K-9 Kuno and his deputy handler were called in from off duty to help in the search.

“That particular K-9 has already found four children with the same type scenario,” Abbott said. “So dispatch reached out to that K-9 officer and he came en route immediately.”

Drones from South Haven Area Emergency Services Authority (SHAES) and Great Lakes Drones also looked for the boy.

Kuno was able to find a footprint leading northwest from the residence and followed the trail for nearly a quarter of a mile toward a large body of water, the sheriff’s office said. They also coordinated with the SHAES drone.

“Once (the drone) got in the area where the K-9 was at and it was confirmed tracking the juvenile, SHAES did advise that they just spotted what they believed was going to be the missing 3-year-old,” Abbott said. “About the same time, our K-9 officer got on the radio and advised that he heard a child crying. And then immediately got on and says, ‘We’ve got the child recovered safely.'”

Abbott told WOOD the two events happened “almost simultaneously,” calling it “great teamwork.”

The K-9 found the child just 50 yards from the water.

“He was just on the southwest corner of a lake area … And just south of that was a big pond. This little child actually walked on a peninsula between the two. So if he had went to the right or the left, we probably would have had a different result,” Abbott said.

The toddler was in “good health but had minor scratches,” the sheriff’s office wrote. He was returned to his family.

“God willing, we had a good positive ending on this one,” Abbott said. “…Where they recovered this little child — you’re talking two or three minutes later, we may have had a different result.”

The sheriff says the child was missing for around an hour, starting from when the 911 call was received.