Xandria
Amber Alert for these children taken by gun point.
by Xandria 4 Replies latest jw friends
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Mulan
Their parents abducted them?
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Brummie
What a flamin worry. Their parents are obviously unfit selfish nuts, thats why they had thier children taken off them in the 1st place, hope this story has an happy ending.
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sf
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/01/15/amber.alert/
Police in the northern mountain town of Boone, North Carolina, said James Canter, 29, and Alishia Ann Chambers, 18, abducted the children at gunpoint from a foster home.
Canter and Chambers fled in a white, two-door Ford, but when officers in Tennessee chased them, they ran from the car into the woods. The children were not in the car and not with the parents, officials said.
Canter is considered armed and dangerous, said Lt. Jamey Fletcher of the sheriff's office in Watauga County, North Carolina.
Fletcher said he did not know how Canter and Chambers knew where to find the children, who he said had been in foster care "for some time."
The Watauga sheriff's office can be reached at 828-264-3761.
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Xandria
Parents captured, kids found safe
Watauga County's Amber Alert is canceled
Associated PressWCNC.com video | Kids arrive back in N.C.
GALAX, Va. - A fugitive couple that allegedly took their two young children from a North Carolina foster home at gunpoint were taken into custody Wednesday in southwestern Virginia, authorities said.
Grayson County Sheriff Jerry D. Wilson said the couple and their children were found in a mobile home in this rural, mountainous area. A tip from North Carolina authorities - who joined sheriff's deputies at the scene - led them to the children.
Wilson said the children, 2-year-old James Paul Chambers and his 11-month-old sister, Breanna, were safe and on their way back to foster care in Watauga County, North Carolina.
"The foster parents were ecstatic upon hearing news of their safe recovery," Watauga County Sheriff Mark Shook told the Watauga Democrat.
The children's parents, James Lee Canter, 28, and Alisha Chambers, 18, were jailed in Grayson County with two counts each of child abduction, felonious restraint and assault with a gun pending in North Carolina. Two others, Jeff Brown, 34, of Mountain City, Tenn., and Sharon Woodards, 43, of Todd, N.C., were also at the home and were charged with being accessories after the fact to felony child abduction.
The county social services agency took custody of the children last March after a raid on the couple's home, where authorities said they discovered a methamphetamine lab.
Since then, Canter has been a fugitive. Chambers, charged with manufacturing meth and maintaining a dwelling for its manufacture, was arrested and posted bail.
An Amber Alert was issued for the children Saturday. Later that day, Canter and Chambers were seen in Johnson County, Tenn., but only their car, containing a rifle and a handgun, was found.
Shook said his office received a tip the couple, children and two adults were driving Wednesday morning through Ashe County, N.C., in a late-model black Ford sedan.
Investigators said they found the couple in the rural Virginia mobile home between 12:30 p.m. and 1 p.m. Canter had recently shaved his face and head and first claimed to be someone else, Shook said.
"There was no struggle," Shook said. "It was very calm."
The children have returned to Watauga County and will undergo a medical evaluation before they're placed by Watauga County Social Services, Shook said in a prepared statement. It wasn't clear if they would return to the same foster parents.
They had changed appearance. The father shaved his head and the woman colored and cut her hair.X.