Lisa DeLong suspected something was wrong as she listened to her tenant's story.

The man rented the apartment under the name Ethan Hargrave and said his 1-year-old daughter was named Emily. Then he accidentally called himself and his daughter by different names.

He even spoke of raising the girl as a single father after her mother was deported to Russia.

"Throughout the course of a couple days, there was just some strange things that didn't add up," DeLong said.

Following a hunch, DeLong went on her computer and searched for missing children. She saw a photo of Emily under her real name - Aubrey Grace Goodson, 17 months old, who had been reported missing two weeks ago from her home in Waurika, Okla., a small city along the Texas-Oklahoma border.

Friday evening, the girl was reunited with her mother, Amanda Edwards, who flew in from Oklahoma.

And early Saturday, Fort Lauderdale police captured the father, whose real name is Bradley Goodson, 32, of Texas. They say he abducted his daughter from Oklahoma and drove her to West Palm Beach.

Police tracked him down to a West Palm Beach house on 57th Way in the Sandalwood development where Goodson had been staying with a friend.

Oklahoma authorities were on their way to West Palm Beach Saturday to question Goodson and eventually return him to that state to face charges.

The baby and her mother have returned to Oklahoma, said West Palm Beach police spokesman Allan Ortman.

"The baby is safe, healthy," Ortman said.

When police attempted to take Goodson into custody, he slipped and fell, injuring his forehead on a fence, Ortman said. He was treated at St. Mary's Medical Center and taken to the Palm Beach County jail.

Edwards said it was either the seventh or eight time Goodson has taken the child without permission.

"It's been very, very hard on all of us," Edwards said Friday evening at police headquarters. "I've just been pleading day in and day out. I just never in a million a years would have guessed (he would be in Florida)."

According to a West Palm Beach police report, Goodson abducted his daughter Feb. 3. Six days later, he responded to an advertisement on the website www.craigslist.org for a roommate in West Palm Beach.

"This is a great recovery," said West Palm Beach Acting Police Chief Mary Santos-Olsen said, "and our officers and detectives are absolutely overwhelmed with joy that we were able to reunite her with her mother."

Goodson is wanted on a felony warrant in Oklahoma. Robert Williams, a special agent with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, said Goodson has an extensive criminal history Oklahoma and Texas. He has court-appointed visitation with his daughter.