Articles labeled: Amber alert

A California man allegedly shot his wife in the face and took off with their son. The woman is expected to survive.

An Amber Alert was in effect throughout California for Lonnie Ramos, 46. He was believed to be driving a rented 39-foot purple-and-gold Fleetwood Providence motor home with the license plate number 5EGW556, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department said.

Ramos was possibly in the San Diego area and Border Patrol agents were notified in case he tried to head for Mexico, sheriff’s spokesman Jim Amormino said.

Amormino said Ramos was considered “armed and extremely dangerous.”

What the hell is up with people dumping kids at Wal-Mart? Note: it’s a place for cheap underwear, not a safe haven for abandoned babies.

The Amber Alert for a missing 1-year-old boy has been cancelled.

Officials say Kaden Berry was found safe at a Wal-Mart located at 10411 I-45 North in Houston.

Police say that a man matching Michael Richardson’s description gave the child to a Wal-Mart employee along with his belongings.

Richardson reportedly said, “Here is the baby. His momma is in jail. They know what’s going on, and I will turn myself in later”. Richardson then left the store.

An Amber Alert has been issued for an Everett, Massachusetts woman and her baby girl, hours after police responded to a report of a domestic dispute.

[Suellen] Souza and Elton Fonseca, 25, were arguing in a gray BMW outside 34 Marie Ave., said Lieutenant John Cristiano of the Everett Police Department.

Neighbors heard Souza screaming for help and called police at 3:45 a.m., Cristiano said. But when officers arrived, the car, driven by Fonseca, was gone.

State police received a 911 call an hour later from a woman they believed was Souza, Cristiano said. They tried to pull the car over on Newton Street in Everett, but the car sped off.

Everett police have responded to domestic situations involving Souza and Fonseca in the past, Cristiano said. Souza had received a restraining order against Fonseca which expired on June 2.

An Amber Alert has been issued for two young Los Angeles boys, who police say were kidnapped by their father after he shot his estranged wife.

Jose Luis Ortega, 26, shot the boys’ mother as many as 12 times, but police said she was able to speak while being taken to the hospital.

“He told his wife that he was going to kill her family and that he was going to flee to Mexico,” Smith said.

An Amber Alert has been issued for the two boys, 5-year-old Diego Fabian Ortega and 3-year-old Luis Gonzalo Ortega.

Their mother’s name has not been released. She was in very serious condition early Monday following surgery.

A 9-year-old boy from Chicago’s South Side has been reported missing by his parents.

The boy was last seen about 9 p.m. at his home, and his parents reported him missing from South Green and West 83rd streets, according to a Gresham District police captain.

The 5-foot, 110-pound black boy was wearing a white t-shirt, blue jeans and a red jacket, the captain said.

An Amber Alert has been issued for a 10-month-old boy who was allegedly kidnapped by his mother from a hospital in Orange, California.

Alakahi Thompson was taken from the hospital at 455 S. Main St. in Orange around 10 p.m. Wednesday, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.

The suspect is identified as Ida Marybel Torres, a Latina who is 5 feet 4, 125 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.

Investigators say Torres also fled with her 5-year-old and 11-year-old children. It’s believed she is driving a rental car– a silver 2008 Chrysler Sebring, license plate 6AHA682, and may be headed for Kentucky.

The Sheriff’s Department said the boy’s father has legal custody of the child and Torres only has visitation rights.

The missing children of the Chicago woman found dead in her apartment last week have been spotted at a store in Arkansas with their father. But unfortunately they were not stopped, and police think the group has probably already made their way to Mexico. So yeah, good luck getting them back now.

“I believe they are being taken care of,” [Chicago Police Area 5 Cmdr. Joseph] Salemme said of the minors.

A no-bond arrest warrant has been issued for Casanova for child abduction. No other charges have been filed against him, police said.

Garcia, 30, was found murdered in her home Monday. Police said they think Casanova picked up the children after classes at Yates Elementary, even though an order of protection barred him from entering the school.

Casanova is driving a 2002 silver gray Dodge Dakota, possibly with Illinois license plate 86196H, Salemme said.

A mother who went missing last week was found dead in her Chicago home yesterday — a victim of a suspected homicide. Her three young children are still missing and an Amber alert has been issued as the family suspects another family member of taking them.

MT hopes that these children are found quickly and safe.

The woman, identified as Sophia Garcia, 30, was found dead at about noon, with a plastic bag over her head in the 1700 block of North Harding Avenue, officials said. Public records identify the woman as Sofia Garcia.

“The family hadn’t heard from [the mother or her children], so they found her at the home and called police,” said Chicago Police Officer JoAnn Taylor.

She said the mother’s death is being investigated as a homicide.

An Amber Alert was issued Monday for her three children, according to Illinois State Police.

Fernando Casanova, 11, Karla Casanova, 7, and Oscar Casanova, 6, were apparently last seen when released from Yates Elementary School, 1839 N. Richmond St., at about 2:30 p.m. Friday, police said.

As many of these stories have rather unpleasant endings, this is a relief. Billie McGee, a 12-year-old from San Francisco reported missing last Monday turned up safe in Oakland, California.

Police said that Wednesday night someone recognized the girl, who had apparently been staying in Oakland with a teenage friend, and told her to call her mother.

Her mother picked up Billie around midnight and the two returned to San Francisco, where the girl met with police investigators, said police spokesman Sgt. Steve Mannina. They determined that the girl had left of her own accord and that no crime had been committed, Mannina said.

Billie McGee, a 12-year-old girl from San Francisco went missing on Monday, when she told her mother she was taking the bus to school and never arrived at her destination.

On Tuesday, San Francisco police Sgt. Steve Mannina said investigators are treating the disappearance as a missing persons case.

“No one’s heard from her,” he said.

Her mother, Tina Brown, said Billie has never run away. She fears the worst.

“Someone took her,” Brown said.

Brown worked a graveyard shift at San Francisco General Hospital on Sunday night and said she called her daughter first thing Monday morning to let her know she would be working late and could not drive her to school.

Billie agreed to catch a city bus on Geneva Avenue, as she has done before, and to head to her school near Candlestick Park on her own, her mother said.

“She was like, ‘OK, Mommy, but I gotta hurry,’ ” her mother said.

A Georgia man who is a convicted child molester took his 4 year old daughter without permission as he does not have custody of the little girl.

Minor Topics is thinking this might not turn out well. The child molester is wanted for bond violation. There is nothing good that happen with him having unfettered access to a small child. I can only imagine the kind of abuse he will likely inflict upon her.

She needs to be found.

ATLANTA (FOX 5) – Authorities were trying locate a missing child and her father Saturday.

Police and U.S. Marshals were searching for 51-year-old Jerry Jones who reportedly took off with his 4-year-old daughter, Madison Kerr Friday night and the pair hasn’t been seen since.