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Bellmead TX Girl Safe And Back Home

.jpg photo of Bellmead Texas girl reported missing in Amber Alert
Katelynn Marie Maldonado, 11-years old

Missing area girl named in Amber Alert safe;
suspect, 16, in custody

BELLMEAD, TX  –  An 11-year-old Bellmead girl who was the focus of an Amber Alert early Monday morning is safe and the 16-year-old girl with whom she was found is in custody and facing a kidnapping charge.

.jpg photo of alleged abductor in Bellmead Texas Amber Alert
Alleged abductor: Brittani Ann Bolin

Katelynn Maldonado was reported missing at around 1:30 a.m. Monday from her family’s home.

Bellmead police issued the alert, identifying the suspect as a 16-year-old Crawford girl who had stolen her grandmother’s 2012 Kia Sorento and had picked up Maldonado “sometime in the middle of the night.”

The two girls know each other through social media and have met once in person at a social event, Bellmead police Lt. Kory Martin said Monday.

The Kia in which the two girls were riding was spotted at around 7:30 a.m. and officers found the two in the 4400 block of Michigan Street, near the 11-year-old girl’s home, Martin said.

Maldonado was reunited with her parents and the 16-year-old was taken to the Bill Logue Juvenile Justice Center, facing kidnapping and unauthorized use of a vehicle charges, Martin said.

The girl’s father, Kasey Maldonado, says another of his daughters woke him up early Monday to tell him Katelynn was gone.

“We were just scared to death,” he said.

Katelynn was at home resting late Monday, he said.

She wasn’t hurt, but is “just very, very upset,” he said.

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Danville VA AMBER ALERT Cancelled

Baby Emma found safe and Father arrested

DANVILLE, VA  –  The search for a missing Danville, Virginia infant believed to be in extreme danger is over.

  • NC tag EKZ-5093
  • 2007 Gold Suzuki four-door Forenza
  • 7-month-old Emma Grace Kennedy.
  • Blond, with blue eyes, and weighing about 18 pounds
  • She was last seen wearing a light blue onesie.
  • Last seen at Kwik Stop on Riverside Drive in Danville.

Emma Grace Kennedy, who is seven months old, appeared to be in good health and was being evaluated at a hospital, the Danville Police Department in Virginia said in a news release.

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Carl Ray Kennedy, a registered sex offender in North Carolina and could be armed with a knife

Carl Ray Kennedy, the girl’s father, was arrested with the baby in Randleman, North Carolina, about 65 miles south of where the abduction took place Sunday evening at a gas station in Danville, police said.

Virginia State Police had issued an Amber Alert early Monday stating that the infant was in “extreme danger.”

Kennedy, 51, is a registered sex offender with a long criminal history, police said.

Before the alleged abduction, he was out of jail on a $250,000 bond on a drug distribution charge.

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Danville VA AMBER ALERT

Man wanted in Danville, Virginia Amber Alert possibly sighted in North Carolina

Danville, VA – JOHNSON CITY, TN (WJHL) — The search for a missing Danville, Virginia infant believed to be in extreme danger continues.

  • NC tag EKZ-5093
  • 2007 Gold Suzuki four-door Forenza
  • 7-month-old Emma Grace Kennedy.
  • Blond, with blue eyes, and weighing about 18 pounds
  • She was last seen wearing a light blue onesie.
  • Last seen at Kwik Stop on Riverside Drive in Danville.
.jpg photo of suspect in Amber Alert
Carl Ray Kennedy, a registered sex offender in North Carolina and could be armed with a knife

Seven month-old Emma Grace Kennedy is believed to have been abducted by Carl Ray Kennedy on Sunday night at the Kwik Stop on Riverside Drive in Danville, Virginia, which is about three hours from the Tri-Cities.

Carl Ray Kennedy was possibly sighted in the area of Seven Springs, North Carolina around 6:30 p.m. Monday night and may possibly he headed to Oak Island, North Carolina.

Virginia State Police also releasing new license plate information: NC tag EKZ-5093, traveling in a 2007 Gold Suzuki four-door Forenza.

He was last seen wearing a brown shirt, gray pants, with gray hair and green eyes.

He has a tattoo of a skull on his left forearm a tattoo of a skull with bandana over the mouth on right forearm, an eye tattoo on the back of his right hand, an upper right arm tattoo of a pitbull with American bulldog written under it and a wizard on his left upper arm.

Kennedy is also a registered sex offender in North Carolina and could be armed with a knife.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Danville Police Department at 434-799-5111 or Virginia State Police at 1-800-822-4453.

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Your Children Need You

.jpg photo of Child taken in Amber Alert
Iridian Perez

Child Abuse, trespassing charges for 2 who
caused Amber Alert in Denver Sunday

DENVER, CO  –  The woman accused of kidnapping her biological daughter with another man Sunday, setting off an Amber Alert, faces child abuse and trespassing charges after the incident.

Meshelle Jasmine Branch, 21, is accused of breaking into and taking her 22-month-old daughter from the girl’s grandmother’s home on East 104th Avenue in Thornton around 9 a.m. Sunday morning.

The grandmother had an active protection order against Branch that prohibits her from being at the grandmother’s home or having contact with the child, which Branch is also charged with violating, in addition to the child abuse and first-degree criminal trespassing charges.

Branch, along with 28-year-old Robert Owens, allegedly took the toddler, who has a severe heart condition that requires close monitoring, though it’s still unclear why.

The Amber Alert was issued around 12:45 p.m. Sunday — nearly four hours after the kidnapping.  Branch and Owens turned themselves in at the Lone Tree Police Department around 1:30, along with the child, who was cleared medically at a nearby hospital and returned to her grandmother.

Branch and Owens, both of Lakewood, remain in custody Monday. Thornton police say the investigation into the case remains ongoing.