YOUNGSTOWN — Two children were reported as runaways Monday evening after leaving their father’s home in Youngstown that evening and going to their mother’s house on Delason Avenue on the South Side, then leaving there when their mother did not answer the door.

The children later told police they were walking toward Market Street when a male in a silver, four-door car pulled up to them and they accepted a ride from him.

The children said the man drove past the WRTA bus station downtown and then past St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital. When they got to a house, they went inside, and the male locked them in a room, the report states.

“After some time, the male said it was time for them to leave, and the pair got in the car and began driving back to the South Side, taking the same way back,” the report states.

One of the two children called their mother on a cell phone. Both kids jumped out of the car while stopped at a stop sign and found police officers, the report states.

Both children told police that the man who gave them a ride did not assault or threaten either of them.

The father told police that at 6:30 p.m., he picked the two kids up at their mother’s house on Willis Avenue on the South Side. They went home, and he made supper. They ate supper, and the kids went upstairs and “began to clean,” the report states.

Their mother told police the kids arrived at her home at about 9 p.m., but she was unable to answer the door and the kids left. She got in her car and began to look for them.

One of the children, whose ages were not provided in the report, was about 5 feet 4 inches tall and 100 pounds. The other child was about 4 feet 10 inches tall and 100 pounds.

Both kids were entered into a database as runaways. An officer searched for the children but did not find them.

A large amount of the report was blacked out because of the details being part of an investigation, but it picked back up again where the children told police about walking toward Market Street and accepting a ride from the man in the silver car.

The report does not indicate whether police made contact with the man or filed any charges against him.