SMITHVILLE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man has been reunited with his 9-year-old and 11-year-old daughters after his ex-wife allegedly took them and fled to Europe.

Justin Bush took his daughters home to Smithville on Wednesday.

Authorities say Samantha Elmer of Lawrence, Kansas, took the girls in October and boarded a flight from O’Hare International Airport in Chicago to Vienna, via Istanbul, ahead of a custody hearing and a trial on theft charges in Johnson County.

Elmer and her daughters were tracked down by officials with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Elmer was arrested Tuesday at an airport in Kansas and appeared in court Wednesday on a charge of taking her children out of the United States with intent to obstruct the lawful exercise of parental rights.

Elmer’s attorney, Tim Burdick, declined to comment on the case.